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Definition: Crippled |
CrippledAdjective1. Disabled in the feet or legs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crippled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of the maimed and crippled, denotes famine and distress among the poor, and you should be willing to contribute to their store. It also indicates a temporary dulness in trade. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: CrippledSynonyms: halt (adj), halting (adj), lame (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting. |
Impotence | Adjective: powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled; Verb: armless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crippled |
| English words defined with "crippled": cripple, Cripply ♦ disabled ♦ lame ♦ maimed, mutilated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crippled": crippleware ♦ demo version ♦ Fireman ♦ Man-of-war. (references) |
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Screenplays | Except to a crippled old man just now. (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) From the crippled children? (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge) You always take his side because he's crippled. Well it's not my fault he's crippled! (Silver Bullet; writing credit: Stephen King;) | |
Lyrics | And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Crippled Hand (1916) Crippled Masters (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Crippled children at play. / Wilbur A. Nowuk(?) Illustrative Studios. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Richmond, Va. Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mountaineer who reared his grandson in his home with the help of the neighbors. He had been crippled with arthritis most of his life. On the steps of a schoolhouse with his dog on South Fork of Kentucky River. Breathitt County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But perhaps justice is denied, or I am crippled and cannot stir, robbed and have not the means to do it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1930) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This ship, crippled as she was, for the sea had used her roughly, produced some sensation on entering the roadstead. |
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Business | China's struggling healthcare system, already crippled by poor planning, must now face challenging trends like an epidemiological transition, rapidly escalating healthcare costs, and an increasingly aging, urban, privately employed, and wage-based population. (references) | |
Economic History | Thailand | The crisis decimated the financial sector and crippled the real sector. (references) |
El Salvador | Divisions between "orthodox" and "reformist" wings of the FMLN crippled the party in the 1999 elections. (references) | |
Estonia | The U.S.S.R.'s forcible annexation of Estonia in 1940 and the ensuing Nazi and Soviet destruction during World War II crippled the Estonian economy. (references) | |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | The Wahid government left most of the nation's problems unresolved, including: building effective, democratic institutions; establishing the rule of law; restoring private capital inflows; resolving violent regional conflicts; and addressing the chronic economic problems of corruption, a heavy debt burden, and a crippled banking system. (references) |
Trade | Russia | The process is complicated by Russia's slow recovery from its 1998 financial crisis, which crippled many of the largest banks. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominica | On November 1, 100 police officers staged a sick-out that briefly crippled operations around the island. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crippled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 44.00% of the time. "Crippled" is used about 275 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 44% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.55% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 275 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crippled": become crippled. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crippled": debt-crippled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crippled | 30 |
child crippled | 11 |
crippled master | 8 |
child crippled hospital shriners | 7 |
crippled polio | 6 |
crippled leg | 5 |
child crippled society | 4 |
child crippled fund | 3 |
crippled nation | 3 |
crippled herring | 3 |
bastard biker crippled old | 3 |
crippled woman | 2 |
crippled people | 2 |
adult crippled fetish site web woman | 2 |
crippled heals jesus woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crippled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i gjymtë (defective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقعد (bench, chair, couch, cripple, disable, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, lame, seat, settee, sofa, stool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | осакатял (disabled, lame), осакатен (disabled, injured, maimed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 致残 (Crippling), 跛 (lame), 廢 (abolish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmrzaèený, ochromený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | halt (lame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verminkt (infirm), gebrekkig (disabled, infirm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kripla (infirm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | avlamin (infirm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raajarikkoinen (disabled, maimed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | infirme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verkrüppelt (infirm, stunts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωλό (lame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | '"ום (amputated, amputation, cut, cutting, maimed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rokkant (cripple, decrepit, disabled, invalid), béna (cripple, game, gammy, half-assed, halting, lame, maimed, paralytic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zoppo (cripple, gammy, lame, lame person, limping), storpio (cripple, gammy, maimed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 片端 (deformed, one edge, one end, one side). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かたわ (cripple, deformed, deformity, disability, disfigurement, distortion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 다리를 ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | martaragh (crippling, disabled, maimed), baccagh (cripple, crippling, game-legged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippledcray estropiado (cripple, gammy, infirm). (various references) ciung (branchless, lopped), sluţit (deformed, ugly), schilod (cripple, deformed, disabled, gamy, invalid, lame), olog (lame), mutilat (maimed), infirm (cripple, disabled, invalid, lame duck), bont (blunt, chippy, dull), beteag (deformed, delicate, rickety, sick). (various references) делать непригодным/ калека (cripple). (various references) eirbleach (slack-jointed or crippled person). (various references) paralizovan (paralysed), osakaćen, obogaljen. (various references) lisiado (cripple, gammy, hurt, injured, lame). (various references) ofärdig (incompletely, lame), lytt (lame, maimed), lam (lame, paralysed, paralyzed). (various references) topal (cripple, game, lame, lame duck), sakat (cripple, crock, defective, disabled, funny, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, malformed, wonky), kötürüm (cripple, paralyzed), eli ayağı tutmayan (age-worn, doddering, doddery, feeble, stricken). (various references) efrydd (maimed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "crippled": uncrippled. (additional references) | |
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"Crippled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chipple, criple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crippled" (pronounced kri"puld) |
| 6 | -r i" p u l d | rippled, tripled. |
| 4 | -p u l d | coupled, crumpled, dimpled, grappled, peopled, principled, quadrupled, quintupled, rumpled, sampled, stapled, toppled, trampled, unprincipled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, crackled, credentialed, crumbled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, pickled, pummeled, puzzled, quarreled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, saddled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, totaled, totalled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-p-p-r" | |
-1 letter: clipped, clipper, cripple, rippled. | |
-2 letters: clerid, dipper, lipped, lipper, priced, ripped, ripple. | |
-3 letters: cider, cried, cripe, dicer, idler, peril, piled, piped, piper, plied, plier, price, pride, pried, redip, relic, riced, riled, riped. | |
-4 letters: cedi, ceil, cire, clip, deil, deli, dice, diel, dire, dirl, drip, epic, iced, idle, ired, lice, lied, lier, lipe, lire, peri. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-p-p-r" | |
+2 letters: principled, uncrippled. | |
+4 letters: appendicular, unprincipled. | |
+5 letters: perpendicular. | |
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