cripple

Meaning

Adj

crippled

Noun

1. (countable, offensive, uncountable) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
2. (countable, uncountable) A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3. (dialectal, uncountable) Scrapple.
4. (countable, uncountable) A rocky shallow in a stream.

Verb

1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
2. (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
3. (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
4. To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
5. (slang) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

Synonyms

lame

maim

disable

mutilate

invalid

disabled person

injure

disabled

hamstring

lame person

disfigure

paraplegic

twist

incapacitate

freak

paralytic

wound

be lame

handicapped person

handicap

hobble

make lame

spastic

stultify

damage

key

🔑

kill

🔪🩸👤

knock out

lameness

limp

lump

mar

mongoloid

mutilator

nuke

obliterate

paralyse

paralysed

paralyze

paralyzed

pauper

plunder

prostrate

pulverise

raze

shipwreck

subvert

total

transfix

upset

Translations

Krüppel

estropié

estropier

verkrüppeln

storpio

boiteux

aleijar

lisiado

esguerrat

mutiler

mutilé

lähmen

mutilato

zoppo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: kreupel

Cognate with Low German: Kröpel

Cognate with German: Krüppel

Cognate with Old Norse: kryppill

In summary

From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.