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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crippled \Crip"pled\ (kr?p"p'ld), adjective Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. ''The crippled crone.'' --Longfellow.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cripple \Crip"ple\, verb (used with an object) [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.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott.
2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crippled
adjective: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: {halt}, {halting}, {lame}, {game}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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