Definition of cripple in English:

cripple

verb ˈkrɪp(ə)lˈkrɪpəl

[with object]

1Cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly.
使跛；使伤残
a young student was crippled for life
一个年轻学生终身残疾了。
Example sentencesExamples
- There are copious menu selections for those who might be crippled, incapable or weak.
- The young crippled men who have been admitted to the home also enjoyed the music - they clapped and cheered as the band played.
- One man set the key example by challenging death, fighting a disease that crippled him.
- If he lives, he'll be a burden to her forever, brain damaged and crippled.
- A young man crippled by a disease of old age may not get the operation he and his family have been hoping and praying for over the last year.
- Many survivors from the march have been crippled or maimed, but Ahir escaped with just a fracture in his right leg.
- I realized that he was quite crippled from the accident.
- Rising to leave, he winced as his legs cramped, almost crippling him with their intense pain.
- In extreme cases, the young soldiers are crippled or even killed.
- Myself personally I have told my husband that if anything happens he is not to let me come around if I am going to be crippled badly and brain damaged.
- A rude person with a fate of becoming disabled will eventually be crippled, but because of his/her personality not many people will care.
- He was crippled, impaired, and everywhere he turned he saw dead ends.
- Her son was crippled after a road accident when he was five.
- When she was too crippled to walk more than a few steps, she still spread her husband's shirts out on the kitchen table and ironed them.
- But he refuses to allow his children to be immunised against the disease that crippled him three decades ago.
- The judges reportedly expressed more concern for the insurance companies who pick up the bill for damages than for those who are crippled or killed.
- People are crippled and occasionally killed playing contact sports such as football and rugby, yet no one would suggest they are banned.
- A sizeable population of the villages neighbouring the border are crippled and maimed.
- After the accident that crippled him, Delbert could no longer play mandolin.
- And the arthritis isn't the typical osteoarthritis that strikes so many older people or the less-common rheumatoid arthritis that can cripple victims as young as six months.
Synonyms
disable, paralyse, immobilize, make lame, lame, incapacitate, debilitate, handicap
maim, impair, damage, injure, hamstring
rare torpefy
1. 1.1 Cause severe and disabling damage to (a machine).
  严重损坏（机器）；使（机器）陷于瘫痪
  Example sentencesExamples
  Qualitatively, the Iraqi military machine is crippled, with no spare parts for its ancient equipment.
  We must cripple the American war machine and lend all possible material support to those suffering its wrath.
  The Shattering Strike took another series of hits, which crippled its engines and left it's weaponry in ruins.
  There was little actual shot damage, but there were crippling collisions.
  We found that almost a dozen cameras were not attached to a recording machine, six could barely see in the dark and others were crippled by mechanical faults.
  Finally, we should spread our eggs over many baskets, so that no single breakdown cripples our electricity grid.
  However, it was modified to accept an electron bolt gun, giving it the ability to disable (/ cripple / damage) much larger ships.
  With 24 actual plies, it can withstand severe cuts that would cripple a tire with just 12 actual plies.
  The Obliterator was severely damaged in the ramming, but the alien vessel was crippled.
  Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft during a second attack on 6 July.
  The aim is to damage an adversary's capacity to attack by crippling its advancing armed forces.
  Because of this bad judgment, my ship is crippled and we have no way to repair the damage with anything we have on board.
  In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye.
  They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it.
  In the meantime, a missile salvo from Comet struck the already damaged Claymore, crippling the ship.
  Only four or five compromised client machines can cripple a server; in this way it's a fiendishly economical attack.
  Clearly, clamping locks on electronic equipment and intentionally crippling CDs wouldn't increase sales.
  The first part of their plan was to disable all orbital satellites around the earth, to cripple the technology of advanced secular nations.
  Did the sudden motion cripple its electrical systems?
  The firewalls on a PC are also disabled or crippled to ensure that the virus can replicate or allow external connections to a back-door installed on the PC.
2. 1.2 Deprive of the ability to function normally.
  developing countries are crippled by their debts
  债务使发展中国家陷入瘫痪。
  Synonyms
  ruin, destroy, wipe out, crush, break

noun ˈkrɪp(ə)lˈkrɪpəl

dated, offensive

1A person who is unable to walk or move properly through disability or because of injury to their back or legs.
〈古，冒犯〉残疾人，跛子
1. 1.1 A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind.
  有严重缺陷者
  an emotional cripple
  情感严重不健全的人。

Usage

The word cripple has long been in use to refer to ‘a person unable to walk through illness or disability’ and is recorded (in the Lindisfarne Gospels) as early as AD 950. In the 20th century the term acquired offensive connotations and has now been largely replaced by broader terms such as ‘disabled person’

Derivatives

crippledom

nounˈkrɪp(ə)ldəmˈkrɪpəldəm

mass noun

dated, offensive

The state or condition of being unable to walk or move properly as a result of disability or injury.

crippler

noun ˈkrɪpləˈkrɪp(ə)lər

1An illness that causes a person to become unable to move or walk properly.
使跛；使伤残
multiple sclerosis is the number one crippler of young adults
1. 1.1 A thing that deprives someone or something of the ability to function normally.
Example sentencesExamples
- Efforts need to be made to bring down the rateable burden - it's a real crippler for young businesses.
- ego is the biggest crippler of most businesses

cripplingly

adverb ˈkrɪplɪŋliˈkrɪp(ə)lɪŋli

as submodifier To an extent that causes a severe or almost insuperable problem (used to emphasize the extreme degree of something)
it would be cripplingly expensive to buy replacements
Example sentencesExamples
- I was cripplingly shy
- Home ownership is a distant dream; starting a family seems cripplingly expensive.
- The baht fell to half its previous price against the dollar, making foreign debt cripplingly expensive.
- Either he's cripplingly shy, or afraid to get close to another human being.

Origin

Old English: from two words, crypel and crēopel, both of Germanic origin and related to creep.

This is a word of Germanic origin, related to creep (Old English), perhaps meaning ‘someone who can only creep’.

Rhymes

fipple, nipple, ripple, stipple, tipple, triple

Definition of cripple in US English:

cripple

verbˈkrɪpəlˈkripəl

[with object]

1Cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly.
使跛；使伤残
a young student was crippled for life
一个年轻学生终身残疾了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The judges reportedly expressed more concern for the insurance companies who pick up the bill for damages than for those who are crippled or killed.
- A sizeable population of the villages neighbouring the border are crippled and maimed.
- When she was too crippled to walk more than a few steps, she still spread her husband's shirts out on the kitchen table and ironed them.
- A rude person with a fate of becoming disabled will eventually be crippled, but because of his/her personality not many people will care.
- Rising to leave, he winced as his legs cramped, almost crippling him with their intense pain.
- In extreme cases, the young soldiers are crippled or even killed.
- If he lives, he'll be a burden to her forever, brain damaged and crippled.
- He was crippled, impaired, and everywhere he turned he saw dead ends.
- Many survivors from the march have been crippled or maimed, but Ahir escaped with just a fracture in his right leg.
- One man set the key example by challenging death, fighting a disease that crippled him.
- Her son was crippled after a road accident when he was five.
- The young crippled men who have been admitted to the home also enjoyed the music - they clapped and cheered as the band played.
- Myself personally I have told my husband that if anything happens he is not to let me come around if I am going to be crippled badly and brain damaged.
- But he refuses to allow his children to be immunised against the disease that crippled him three decades ago.
- And the arthritis isn't the typical osteoarthritis that strikes so many older people or the less-common rheumatoid arthritis that can cripple victims as young as six months.
- I realized that he was quite crippled from the accident.
- People are crippled and occasionally killed playing contact sports such as football and rugby, yet no one would suggest they are banned.
- After the accident that crippled him, Delbert could no longer play mandolin.
- A young man crippled by a disease of old age may not get the operation he and his family have been hoping and praying for over the last year.
- There are copious menu selections for those who might be crippled, incapable or weak.
Synonyms
disable, paralyse, immobilize, make lame, lame, incapacitate, debilitate, handicap
disabled, having a disability, wheelchair-using
1. 1.1 Cause severe and disabling damage to (a machine).
  严重损坏（机器）；使（机器）陷于瘫痪
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Obliterator was severely damaged in the ramming, but the alien vessel was crippled.
  With 24 actual plies, it can withstand severe cuts that would cripple a tire with just 12 actual plies.
  The aim is to damage an adversary's capacity to attack by crippling its advancing armed forces.
  Did the sudden motion cripple its electrical systems?
  The firewalls on a PC are also disabled or crippled to ensure that the virus can replicate or allow external connections to a back-door installed on the PC.
  In the meantime, a missile salvo from Comet struck the already damaged Claymore, crippling the ship.
  We must cripple the American war machine and lend all possible material support to those suffering its wrath.
  Because of this bad judgment, my ship is crippled and we have no way to repair the damage with anything we have on board.
  They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it.
  Finally, we should spread our eggs over many baskets, so that no single breakdown cripples our electricity grid.
  Only four or five compromised client machines can cripple a server; in this way it's a fiendishly economical attack.
  Qualitatively, the Iraqi military machine is crippled, with no spare parts for its ancient equipment.
  The Shattering Strike took another series of hits, which crippled its engines and left it's weaponry in ruins.
  Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft during a second attack on 6 July.
  The first part of their plan was to disable all orbital satellites around the earth, to cripple the technology of advanced secular nations.
  In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye.
  Clearly, clamping locks on electronic equipment and intentionally crippling CDs wouldn't increase sales.
  There was little actual shot damage, but there were crippling collisions.
  We found that almost a dozen cameras were not attached to a recording machine, six could barely see in the dark and others were crippled by mechanical faults.
  However, it was modified to accept an electron bolt gun, giving it the ability to disable (/ cripple / damage) much larger ships.
2. 1.2 Deprive of the ability to function normally.
  developing countries are crippled by their debts
  债务使发展中国家陷入瘫痪。
  Synonyms
  ruin, destroy, wipe out, crush, break

nounˈkrɪpəlˈkripəl

offensive, dated

1A person who is unable to walk or move properly through disability or because of injury to their back or legs.
〈古，冒犯〉残疾人，跛子
1. 1.1 A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind.
  有严重缺陷者
  an emotional cripple
  情感严重不健全的人。

Usage

The word cripple has long been in use to refer to ‘a person unable to walk due to illness or disability’ and is recorded as early as AD 950. In the 20th century, the term acquired offensive connotations and has now been largely replaced by broader terms such as ‘disabled person.’

Origin

Old English: from two words, crypel and crēopel, both of Germanic origin and related to creep.

词汇	cripple
释义	Definition of cripple in English: cripple verb ˈkrɪp(ə)lˈkrɪpəl [with object] 1Cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly. 使跛；使伤残 a young student was crippled for life 一个年轻学生终身残疾了。 Example sentencesExamples There are copious menu selections for those who might be crippled, incapable or weak. The young crippled men who have been admitted to the home also enjoyed the music - they clapped and cheered as the band played. One man set the key example by challenging death, fighting a disease that crippled him. If he lives, he'll be a burden to her forever, brain damaged and crippled. A young man crippled by a disease of old age may not get the operation he and his family have been hoping and praying for over the last year. Many survivors from the march have been crippled or maimed, but Ahir escaped with just a fracture in his right leg. I realized that he was quite crippled from the accident. Rising to leave, he winced as his legs cramped, almost crippling him with their intense pain. In extreme cases, the young soldiers are crippled or even killed. Myself personally I have told my husband that if anything happens he is not to let me come around if I am going to be crippled badly and brain damaged. A rude person with a fate of becoming disabled will eventually be crippled, but because of his/her personality not many people will care. He was crippled, impaired, and everywhere he turned he saw dead ends. Her son was crippled after a road accident when he was five. When she was too crippled to walk more than a few steps, she still spread her husband's shirts out on the kitchen table and ironed them. But he refuses to allow his children to be immunised against the disease that crippled him three decades ago. The judges reportedly expressed more concern for the insurance companies who pick up the bill for damages than for those who are crippled or killed. People are crippled and occasionally killed playing contact sports such as football and rugby, yet no one would suggest they are banned. A sizeable population of the villages neighbouring the border are crippled and maimed. After the accident that crippled him, Delbert could no longer play mandolin. And the arthritis isn't the typical osteoarthritis that strikes so many older people or the less-common rheumatoid arthritis that can cripple victims as young as six months. Synonyms disable, paralyse, immobilize, make lame, lame, incapacitate, debilitate, handicap maim, impair, damage, injure, hamstring rare torpefy 1.1 Cause severe and disabling damage to (a machine). 严重损坏（机器）；使（机器）陷于瘫痪 Example sentencesExamples Qualitatively, the Iraqi military machine is crippled, with no spare parts for its ancient equipment. We must cripple the American war machine and lend all possible material support to those suffering its wrath. The Shattering Strike took another series of hits, which crippled its engines and left it's weaponry in ruins. There was little actual shot damage, but there were crippling collisions. We found that almost a dozen cameras were not attached to a recording machine, six could barely see in the dark and others were crippled by mechanical faults. Finally, we should spread our eggs over many baskets, so that no single breakdown cripples our electricity grid. However, it was modified to accept an electron bolt gun, giving it the ability to disable (/ cripple / damage) much larger ships. With 24 actual plies, it can withstand severe cuts that would cripple a tire with just 12 actual plies. The Obliterator was severely damaged in the ramming, but the alien vessel was crippled. Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft during a second attack on 6 July. The aim is to damage an adversary's capacity to attack by crippling its advancing armed forces. Because of this bad judgment, my ship is crippled and we have no way to repair the damage with anything we have on board. In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye. They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it. In the meantime, a missile salvo from Comet struck the already damaged Claymore, crippling the ship. Only four or five compromised client machines can cripple a server; in this way it's a fiendishly economical attack. Clearly, clamping locks on electronic equipment and intentionally crippling CDs wouldn't increase sales. The first part of their plan was to disable all orbital satellites around the earth, to cripple the technology of advanced secular nations. Did the sudden motion cripple its electrical systems? The firewalls on a PC are also disabled or crippled to ensure that the virus can replicate or allow external connections to a back-door installed on the PC. 1.2 Deprive of the ability to function normally. developing countries are crippled by their debts 债务使发展中国家陷入瘫痪。 Synonyms ruin, destroy, wipe out, crush, break noun ˈkrɪp(ə)lˈkrɪpəl dated, offensive 1A person who is unable to walk or move properly through disability or because of injury to their back or legs. 〈古，冒犯〉残疾人，跛子 1.1 A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind. 有严重缺陷者 an emotional cripple 情感严重不健全的人。 Usage The word cripple has long been in use to refer to ‘a person unable to walk through illness or disability’ and is recorded (in the Lindisfarne Gospels) as early as AD 950. In the 20th century the term acquired offensive connotations and has now been largely replaced by broader terms such as ‘disabled person’ Derivatives crippledom nounˈkrɪp(ə)ldəmˈkrɪpəldəm mass noundated, offensive The state or condition of being unable to walk or move properly as a result of disability or injury. crippler noun ˈkrɪpləˈkrɪp(ə)lər 1An illness that causes a person to become unable to move or walk properly. 使跛；使伤残 multiple sclerosis is the number one crippler of young adults 1.1 A thing that deprives someone or something of the ability to function normally. Example sentencesExamples Efforts need to be made to bring down the rateable burden - it's a real crippler for young businesses. ego is the biggest crippler of most businesses cripplingly adverb ˈkrɪplɪŋliˈkrɪp(ə)lɪŋli as submodifier To an extent that causes a severe or almost insuperable problem (used to emphasize the extreme degree of something) it would be cripplingly expensive to buy replacements Example sentencesExamples I was cripplingly shy Home ownership is a distant dream; starting a family seems cripplingly expensive. The baht fell to half its previous price against the dollar, making foreign debt cripplingly expensive. Either he's cripplingly shy, or afraid to get close to another human being. Origin Old English: from two words, crypel and crēopel, both of Germanic origin and related to creep. This is a word of Germanic origin, related to creep (Old English), perhaps meaning ‘someone who can only creep’. Rhymes fipple, nipple, ripple, stipple, tipple, triple Definition of cripple in US English: cripple verbˈkrɪpəlˈkripəl [with object] 1Cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly. 使跛；使伤残 a young student was crippled for life 一个年轻学生终身残疾了。 Example sentencesExamples The judges reportedly expressed more concern for the insurance companies who pick up the bill for damages than for those who are crippled or killed. A sizeable population of the villages neighbouring the border are crippled and maimed. When she was too crippled to walk more than a few steps, she still spread her husband's shirts out on the kitchen table and ironed them. A rude person with a fate of becoming disabled will eventually be crippled, but because of his/her personality not many people will care. Rising to leave, he winced as his legs cramped, almost crippling him with their intense pain. In extreme cases, the young soldiers are crippled or even killed. If he lives, he'll be a burden to her forever, brain damaged and crippled. He was crippled, impaired, and everywhere he turned he saw dead ends. Many survivors from the march have been crippled or maimed, but Ahir escaped with just a fracture in his right leg. One man set the key example by challenging death, fighting a disease that crippled him. Her son was crippled after a road accident when he was five. The young crippled men who have been admitted to the home also enjoyed the music - they clapped and cheered as the band played. Myself personally I have told my husband that if anything happens he is not to let me come around if I am going to be crippled badly and brain damaged. But he refuses to allow his children to be immunised against the disease that crippled him three decades ago. And the arthritis isn't the typical osteoarthritis that strikes so many older people or the less-common rheumatoid arthritis that can cripple victims as young as six months. I realized that he was quite crippled from the accident. People are crippled and occasionally killed playing contact sports such as football and rugby, yet no one would suggest they are banned. After the accident that crippled him, Delbert could no longer play mandolin. A young man crippled by a disease of old age may not get the operation he and his family have been hoping and praying for over the last year. There are copious menu selections for those who might be crippled, incapable or weak. Synonyms disable, paralyse, immobilize, make lame, lame, incapacitate, debilitate, handicap disabled, having a disability, wheelchair-using 1.1 Cause severe and disabling damage to (a machine). 严重损坏（机器）；使（机器）陷于瘫痪 Example sentencesExamples The Obliterator was severely damaged in the ramming, but the alien vessel was crippled. With 24 actual plies, it can withstand severe cuts that would cripple a tire with just 12 actual plies. The aim is to damage an adversary's capacity to attack by crippling its advancing armed forces. Did the sudden motion cripple its electrical systems? The firewalls on a PC are also disabled or crippled to ensure that the virus can replicate or allow external connections to a back-door installed on the PC. In the meantime, a missile salvo from Comet struck the already damaged Claymore, crippling the ship. We must cripple the American war machine and lend all possible material support to those suffering its wrath. Because of this bad judgment, my ship is crippled and we have no way to repair the damage with anything we have on board. They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it. Finally, we should spread our eggs over many baskets, so that no single breakdown cripples our electricity grid. Only four or five compromised client machines can cripple a server; in this way it's a fiendishly economical attack. Qualitatively, the Iraqi military machine is crippled, with no spare parts for its ancient equipment. The Shattering Strike took another series of hits, which crippled its engines and left it's weaponry in ruins. Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft during a second attack on 6 July. The first part of their plan was to disable all orbital satellites around the earth, to cripple the technology of advanced secular nations. In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye. Clearly, clamping locks on electronic equipment and intentionally crippling CDs wouldn't increase sales. There was little actual shot damage, but there were crippling collisions. We found that almost a dozen cameras were not attached to a recording machine, six could barely see in the dark and others were crippled by mechanical faults. However, it was modified to accept an electron bolt gun, giving it the ability to disable (/ cripple / damage) much larger ships. 1.2 Deprive of the ability to function normally. developing countries are crippled by their debts 债务使发展中国家陷入瘫痪。 Synonyms ruin, destroy, wipe out, crush, break nounˈkrɪpəlˈkripəl offensive, dated 1A person who is unable to walk or move properly through disability or because of injury to their back or legs. 〈古，冒犯〉残疾人，跛子 1.1 A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind. 有严重缺陷者 an emotional cripple 情感严重不健全的人。 Usage The word cripple has long been in use to refer to ‘a person unable to walk due to illness or disability’ and is recorded as early as AD 950. In the 20th century, the term acquired offensive connotations and has now been largely replaced by broader terms such as ‘disabled person.’ Origin Old English: from two words, crypel and crēopel, both of Germanic origin and related to creep.
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