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- Dictionarycrip·pled/ˈkripəld/
adjective
- 1. severely damaged or malfunctioning: "the pilot displayed skill and nerve in landing the crippled plane"
- 2. (of a person) unable to walk or move normally; disabled. dated, offensive
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1. : to severely damage (something) : to destroy the strength, efficiency, or wholeness of (something) an economy crippledby inflation. 2. offensive, of an injury or disease: to deprive (someone) of the use of a limb and especially a leg. cripplingly. ˈkri-p(ə-)liŋ-lē.
CRIPPLED definition: 1. unable to walk or move in the usual way because of injury or a medical condition 2. severely…. Learn more.
to prevent software or a device from working normally, usually intentionally in order to make the user pay for more software, for another device, etc.: The company released software that crippled unlocked phones, preventing them from being used on other carriers ' networks.
Cripple definition: a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.. See examples of CRIPPLE used in a sentence.
Crippled definition: relating to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.. See examples of CRIPPLED used in a sentence.
A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple. [offensive] 2. verb. If someone is crippled by an injury, it is so serious that they can never move their body properly again.
cripple. To cripple is to leave someone unable to walk. Terrible car accidents, for example, can sometimes cripple their victims. Use the verb cripple to describe what is done to a person whose legs are so badly injured that they can't be used.
verb. /ˈkrɪpl/ Verb Forms. [usually passive] to seriously damage or harm somebody/something. be crippled (by something) The industry has been financially crippled by these policies. Sugar producers have been crippled by plummeting prices. The pilot tried to land his crippled plane. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
adjective. 1. physically incapacitated. He heaved his crippled leg into an easier position. crippled with arthritis. 2. having had its capacity to function damaged. The minister unveiled the toughest budget in his country's history yesterday, but with the promise that the worst was over for the country's crippled economy. a crippled economy.
1. offensive a person who is lame. 2. offensive a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way: a mental cripple. 3. (Physical Geography) dialectUS a dense thicket, usually in marshy land. vb. (tr) to make a cripple of; disable. [Old English crypel; related to crēopan to creep, Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpel]
