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cripple

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verbdisable; make lame

verbhinder action, progress

Word Origin & History

Old English crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (cf. Old Frisian kreppel, Middle Dutch cropel, German krüppel, Old Norse kryppill). Possibly also related to Old English creopan "to creep" (creopere, literally "creeper," was another Old English word for "crippled person").

Example Sentences for cripple

His intention was neither to kill nor to cripple his antagonist.

“The man is virtually a cripple,” he added with unmistakable feeling.

Then the cripple said to him: “If you are afraid, then you cannot become an Immortal!”

He was evidently a cripple, propped up in a strange wheelchair.

The first of these he might, perhaps, solve after a fashion, but the second—and he a cripple!

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Synonyms for cripple

verb disable; make lame

debilitate
hamstring
hurt
immobilize
incapacitate
injure
paralyze
sap
stifle
undermine
weaken
attenuate
blunt
disarm
dismember
enfeeble
lame
maim
mangle
mutilate
palsy
prostrate
sideline
dislimb
unstrengthen

Antonyms for cripple

aid
assist
cure
heal
help
mend
mobilize
strengthen
repair
allow
capacitate
enable
encourage
support

More words related to cripple

attenuate

verb. weaken

abate
constrict
contract
cripple
debilitate
deflate
disable
dissipate
enfeeble
extenuate
lessen
mitigate
sap
shrink
thin
undermine
vitiate

attenuated

verb. weaken

abate
constrict
contract
cripple
debilitate
deflate
disable
dissipate
enfeeble
extenuate
lessen
mitigate
sap
shrink
thin
undermine
vitiate

batter

verb. strike and damage

assault
bash
beat
break
bruise
buffet
clobber
contuse
cripple
crush
dash
deface
demolish
destroy
disable
disfigure
drub
hurt
injure
lacerate
lambaste
lame
lash
mangle
mar
maul
mutilate
pelt
pommel
pound
pummel
punish
ruin
shatter
smash
thrash
wallop
wreck

battered

verb. strike and damage

assault
bash
beat
break
bruise
buffet
clobber
contuse
cripple
crush
dash
deface
demolish
destroy
disable
disfigure
drub
hurt
injure
lacerate
lambaste
lame
lash
mangle
mar
maul
mutilate
pelt
pommel
pound
pummel
punish
ruin
shatter
smash
thrash
wallop
wreck

battering

verb. strike and damage

assault
bash
beat
break
bruise
buffet
clobber
contuse
cripple
crush
dash
deface
demolish
destroy
disable
disfigure
drub
hurt
injure
lacerate
lambaste
lame
lash
mangle
mar
maul
mutilate
pelt
pommel
pound
pummel
punish
ruin
shatter
smash
thrash
wallop
wreck

blunt

verb. make dull

attenuate
benumb
cripple
dampen
deaden
debilitate
desensitize
disable
enfeeble
hebetate
numb
obtund
sap
soften
take the edge off
undermine
water down
weaken

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