Cripple

Definition: Cripple

Cripple

Noun

1. Someone whose legs are disabled.

Verb

1. Deprive of strength or efficiency; "This measure crippled our efforts".

2. Deprive of the use of a limb, esp. a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cripple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Cripple \Crip"ple\, [Local. United States]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: Cripple

Deterioration

Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.

Disease

Martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind"; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.

Inutility

Render useless; Adjective: dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame; (injure); spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear.

Weakness

Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.

Crosswords: Cripple

Let's land on him, we'll cripple his car. (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

Cripple Creek (1952)

Marshal of Cripple Creek (1947)

The Cripple of Ypres (1915)

At Cripple Creek (1912)

A Lynching at Cripple Creek Tracked by Bloodhounds; or (1904)

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Books

• All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (The Working Class in American History) (reference)

• Belle of Cripple Creek Gold (reference)

• Cripple Creek (reference)

• Cripple Creek Days (reference)

• Cripple Creek Dulcimer Book/ CD set (reference)

  (more book examples)

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NOAA Fisheries Research Vessel CRIPPLE CREEK, formerly a Bureau of Mines vessel. This picture was taken January 17, 1972 after 100 mph winds with freezing spray lashed Kodiak, Alaska. Over 2 feet of ice built up on the vessel's port side during this storm. This vessel was excessed in 1973. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Arrival of the first train at Cripple Creek over the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, July 1, 1894. Accident to the train on its return trip. The Great railway strikes--the first meat train leaving the Chicago [stoc]k-yards under escort of United Stat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colorado Springs from Point Sublime, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Towards Duffield's from St. Peter's, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

St. Peter's dome, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Panorama from Point Sublime, C.S. & C.C. [Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cathedral Park near Clyde, C.S.& C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cripple Creek, Colo. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It makes use of the cripple as well as the conqueror, the conqueror without, the cripple within

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cripple": Cripple Creek ♦ moral cripple. Additional references.

Beginning with "cripple": cripple-ware.

Albanian

ulok (paralytic), sakatoj (beat up, lame, maim, mangle, maul, mutilate), sakat (disabled, lame duck), gjymtoj (disable, dismember, hackle, haggle, lame, limb, maim, mutilate), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كل ذو نقص, ‏مقعد عاجز, ‏مقعد (bench, chair, couch, crippled, disable, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, lame, seat, settee, sofa, stool), ‏مستنقع الفساد, ‏عطل (cancel, damage, deactivate, derange, disrupt, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, stay, suspend), ‏عرج (call, halt, hobble, lameness, limp, zigzag), ‏أعرج (game, gimp, halt, halting, lame, limping), ‏أصابه بالعرج, ‏أشل (paralytic), ‏شل (benumb, numb, paralyse, paralyze, stalemate, transfix, wither). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осакатявам (disable, dismember, emasculate, hamstring, hock, hough, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, nip), отслабям (abate, depauperate, ease, loosen, reduce, relax, remit, shake, weaken, wear down), парализирам (cramp, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, torpedo), инвалид (crock, invalid, shut in). (various references)

Chinese 

跛子 (lame person). (various references)

Czech

zmrzaèit (maim, mutilate), paralyzovat (hamstring, paralyze), mrzák (lame duck). (various references)

Danish

udrangeret vogn (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon), godsvogn der er taget ud af drift (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon). (various references)

Dutch

buiten dienst gestelde wagen (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon). (various references)

Farsi 

فلج کردن (Freeze, Mutilate, Palsy, Paralyze), چلاق , لنگ کردن (Hock), لنگ (Limp), زمین گیر, عاجز (Determinant, Incapable, Septum, Unable). (various references)

Finnish

vaivainen (invalid, miserable, wretched), raajarikko. (various references)

French

corruption, wagon réformé, paralyser (to become cripped), paralysé, impotent, handicaper, handicapé, faire paralyser, estropier, estropié (crippled), entraver (cramp), boiteux (crippled). (various references)

German

Krüppel (cripples). (various references)

Greek 

κολοβώνω (maim, mutilate), όχημα ακατάλληλο για κυκλοφορία (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon), σακάτησ (maimed person), σακατεύω (hamstring, maim), μισερεύω, χωλόσ (halt, lame), ανάπηροσ (amputee, disabled, infirm), ανάπηρος (disabled, handicapped, handicapped person, invalid). (various references)

Hebrew 

מומם (maimed), לשבש (derange, dislocate, disrupt, muddle, queer, upset), קטע (amputee), בעל מום (cretin, invalid, lame duck), צולע (gammy, halt, lame, limping), � כ�" (disabled, handicapped, invalid, lame duck). (various references)

Hungarian

rokkant (crippled, decrepit, disabled, invalid), nyomorék (crippled, disabled, game, gammy, handicapped, lame). (various references)

Indonesian

pincang (game, lame), mendengklangkan (hobble). (various references)

Italian

carro scartato (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon), zoppo (gammy, lame, lame person, limping), storpio (crippled, gammy, maimed), storpiare (maim, mangle), rendere inefficiente, mutilare (deface, maim, mutilate), azzoppare (hamstring, lame, nobble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

跛 (lame), 癈人 (disabled person, invalid), 廃人 (disabled person, invalid), 不具者 (disabled person), 不具 (deformity, disability, distortion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びっ�" (lame), ふぐしゃ (disabled person), ふぐ (blow fish, deformity, disability, distortion, emergency, fugu, globefish, puffer fish, swellfish), かたわ (crippled, deformed, deformity, disability, disfigurement, distortion), はいじ�" (ashes and dust, disabled person, haiku poet, invalid). (various references)

Korean 

앉은뱅이. (various references)

Manx

shirgeydagh, martarey (disable, lame, maim), martaraghey, martar (lame fellow), croobagh (crippled animal, deformed, lame), criggyl (cripples), baccaghey, baccagh (crippled, crippling, game-legged), anheiltagh (crippling, decrepit, feeble person, helpless). (various references)

Norwegian

krøpling. (various references)

Pig Latin

ipplecray.(various references)

Portuguese

coxo (hobbler, lame, limper), coxear (hobble, lame, limp), vagão reformado (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon), vagão abatido (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon), mutilar (disable, garble, hack, hackle, maim, mangle, mutilate, truncate), mancar (dot and go one, halt, hitch, hobble, lame, limp), estropiar (maim, murder, mutilate), estropiado (crippled, gammy, infirm), aleijado (crippled, gammy, infirm, lame). (various references)

Romanian

calic (beggar, cadger, glutton, greedy, pauper, ragamuffin, ragged, skinflint, tatterdemalion), calici (bring to poverty), ciungi, ciunti (amputate, top, truncate), mutila (emasculate, maim, mangle, mutilate), beteji, estropia, şchiopãta (founder, halt, hobble, limp, stump), invalid (disabled, invalid), zãdãrnici (annihilate, defeat, destroy, discomfit, disturb, foil, frustrate, pip, thwart), nenoroci (destroy, lacerate, plague), ologi (lame), paraliza (crush, cut, hough, neutralize, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, transfix), poci (disfigure), schilod (crippled, deformed, disabled, gamy, invalid, lame), schilodi (disable, lame, maim, mangle, maul, mutilate), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), infirm (crippled, disabled, invalid, lame duck). (various references)

Russian 

калечить (hamstring, maim, maul, mutilate), калека (lame duck), повреждать (blast, damage, impair, injure), искалечить, делать непригодным/ калека (crippled). (various references)

Scottish

crùbach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubogaljiti, sakatiti (maim, mutilate), onesposobiti (disable, hamstring, incapacitate, indispose, spike, unfit), obogaljiti, invalid (invalid), bogalj. (various references)

Spanish

cojo (dot and go one, gammy, lame, one-legged), vagón reformado (bad order car, defective wagon, not-to-go-wagon), tullir (maim), tullido, persona inválida, mutilar (deface, disable, emasculate, garble, maim, mangle, mutilate), lisiar (injure, lame, maim), lisiado (crippled, gammy, hurt, injured, lame), inválido (disabled, disabled person, invalid, null, pensioner, void), hombre inválido, herir (bruise, cut up, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, offend, Pierce, pinch, pique, scorch, scotch, shoot, smite, spite, strike, touch, wound), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), encojar (lame), baldar, baldado. (various references)

Swedish

omintetgöra (defeat, disconcert, foil, frustrate, scotch, shatter, sink, thwart, torpedo, undo), krympling (shrink). (various references)

Turkish

zayıflatmak (damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), topal (crippled, game, lame, lame duck), sakatlamak (disable, flaw, hamstring, injure, lame, maim, Mar, mutilate, nobble), sakat (crippled, crock, defective, disabled, funny, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, malformed, wonky), kötürüm bırakmak (palsy), kötürüm (crippled, paralyzed), felce uğratmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

зolak. (various references)

Ukrainian

інвалід (invalid), кульгати (hobble, limp), кульгавий (badger-legged, dot and go one, gammy, halt, lame), кривий (awry, bandy, bent, cam, crook, crooked, gammy, lame, wry), калічити (beat up, hamstring, lame, maim, mutilate), каліка, псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người què cái thang đứng. (various references)

henzer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cripple": crippled, crippler, cripplers, cripples. (additional references)

Words containing "cripple": uncrippled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cripple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cariplo, chipple, crapola, criple, Cripp, dripple, kipple. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clipper.

-1 letter: lipper, ripple.

-2 letters: cripe, peril, piper, plier, price, relic.

-3 letters: ceil, cire, clip, epic, lice, lier, lipe, lire, peri, perp, pice, pier, pile, pipe, plie, prep, repp, rice, riel, rile, ripe.

-4 letters: cel, cep, ice, ire, lei, lie, lip, pec, pep, per, pic, pie, pip, rec, rei, rep, rip.

-5 letters: el, er, li, pe, pi.

+1 letter: clippers, crippled, crippler, cripples.

+2 letters: cripplers, principle, proleptic.

+3 letters: paraplegic, participle, preplacing, principled, principles, uncrippled.

+4 letters: appreciable, appreciably, paraplegics, participles, perceptible, perceptibly, pilocarpine, pleiotropic, pleomorphic, polariscope, procephalic, prophetical.

+5 letters: appendicular, epigraphical, hyperlipemic, hyperplastic, hypertypical, paleographic, perceptional, perceptively, percipiently, perspectival, pilocarpines, planispheric, polariscopes, preceptorial, precipitable, preeclampsia, preeclamptic, pumpernickel, superplastic, superspecial, unprincipled.