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verb

Cripple v. t. (past & past part. crippled; pres. part. crippling)

To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. "He had crippled the joints of the noble child."

To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. "More serious embarrassments... were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay." "An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic."

adjective

Crippled adj. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone."

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Etymology of 'Crippled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crippled" Quotes from Famous Books

... Her slender legs were as free from swellings as when they had carried her past Smith's gray; her feet looked to be in perfect condition; yet, save for the fact that she could stand up, she was as crippled as if the bones of ...

— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... and brass, which he had himself taken from a famous Greek warrior, Demoleus, whom he had slain before Troy. Gyas received two caldrons of brass, and some silver bowls ornamented with rich carvings. Lastly, when Sergestus had slowly brought back to port his crippled galley, his chief bestowed on him, in reward for having rescued the vessel from her perilous position, a Cretan female slave with ...

— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various

... however, the interest decreased, as Josie had predicted it would. A half dozen suspects were held for further examination and the others released. New buildings were being erected at the airplane plant, and although somewhat crippled, the business of manufacturing these necessary engines of war was soon going on ...

— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)

... lungs,—but may actually form a lodgment and a growth-colony in the lungs themselves, and yet be completely defeated by the antitoxic powers of the blood and other tissues of the body, prevented from spreading throughout the rest of the lung, most of the invaders destroyed, and the crippled remnants imprisoned for life in the interior of a ...

— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... sullen and dangerous temper of many amongst the Royalist party. They represented every type. There were the old Cavaliers, who had fought in the earlier years of the war, had seen their dearest and best fall in the King's service, and had permanently crippled, or entirely lost, their estates for the Royalist cause. Twenty years of poverty and hardship, if it had not slackened their loyalty, had taught them caution. They knew by experience the hopelessness of plots, and had recognized ...

— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik

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