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[syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Crippled \Crip"pled\ (kr?p"p'ld), a.
Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone."
--Longfellow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
foot; to lame.
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He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
W. Scott.
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2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
to be financially crippled.
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More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
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An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
body politic. --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
crippled
adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a
game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame,
gimpy, game]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "crippled":
bad, castrated, damaged, debilitated, disabled, disarmed,
disqualified, emasculated, game, halt, halting, hamstrung,
handicapped, hobbling, hog-tied, incapacitated, inoperative,
invalidated, lame, limping, maimed, paralyzed, prostrate, spavined,
weak, weakened