cripple

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crip·ple

C0749900 (krĭp′əl)n.1. a. Often Offensive A person who is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs:b. An animal that is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple.2. A damaged or defective object or device: "He ... would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute" (Joseph Conrad).tr.v. crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples 1. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.2. To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of: a strike that crippled the factory.

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[Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.]

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crip′pler n.

cripple

(ˈkrɪpəl) n1. offensive a person who is lame2. offensive a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way: a mental cripple. 3. (Physical Geography) dialect US a dense thicket, usually in marshy landvb (tr) to make a cripple of; disable[Old English crypel; related to crēopan to creep, Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpel] ˈcrippler n

crip•ple

(ˈkrɪp əl)

n., v. -pled, -pling. usage: The term cripple in the sense of “a lame or disabled person” is usually perceived as offensive and is not used very often nowadays. The noun cripple and the adjective crippled have largely been replaced by the neutral term (the) handicapped or by the more recent and increasingly common term (the) disabled. The adjectives challenged and special are preferred by some people but are often ridiculed as euphemisms. cripple in the sense of “a person who is disabled in any way” is used in phrases such as mental cripple, emotional cripple, and social cripple.—n. 1. Usu. Offensive. a lame or disabled person or animal. 2. a person who is disabled in any way: a mental cripple. 3. something impaired or flawed. v.t. 4. to make a cripple of; lame. 5. to disable; impair. [before 950; Middle English cripel, Old English crypel; akin to creep]crip′pler, n. crip′pling•ly, adv.

cripple

Past participle: crippled
Gerund: crippling

Imperative
cripple
cripple

Present
I cripple
you cripple
he/she/it cripples
we cripple
you cripple
they cripple

Preterite
I crippled
you crippled
he/she/it crippled
we crippled
you crippled
they crippled

Present Continuous
I am crippling
you are crippling
he/she/it is crippling
we are crippling
you are crippling
they are crippling

Present Perfect
I have crippled
you have crippled
he/she/it has crippled
we have crippled
you have crippled
they have crippled

Past Continuous
I was crippling
you were crippling
he/she/it was crippling
we were crippling
you were crippling
they were crippling

Past Perfect
I had crippled
you had crippled
he/she/it had crippled
we had crippled
you had crippled
they had crippled

Future
I will cripple
you will cripple
he/she/it will cripple
we will cripple
you will cripple
they will cripple

Future Perfect
I will have crippled
you will have crippled
he/she/it will have crippled
we will have crippled
you will have crippled
they will have crippled

Future Continuous
I will be crippling
you will be crippling
he/she/it will be crippling
we will be crippling
you will be crippling
they will be crippling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been crippling
you have been crippling
he/she/it has been crippling
we have been crippling
you have been crippling
they have been crippling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been crippling
you will have been crippling
he/she/it will have been crippling
we will have been crippling
you will have been crippling
they will have been crippling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been crippling
you had been crippling
he/she/it had been crippling
we had been crippling
you had been crippling
they had been crippling

Conditional
I would cripple
you would cripple
he/she/it would cripple
we would cripple
you would cripple
they would cripple

Past Conditional
I would have crippled
you would have crippled
he/she/it would have crippled
we would have crippled
you would have crippled
they would have crippled

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cripple - someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or backindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"crookback, humpback, hunchback - a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
Verb	1.	cripple - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"stultifyweaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body"
	2.	cripple - deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"lamemaim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"hamstring - cripple by cutting the hamstring

cripple

verb1. disable, paralyse, lame, debilitate, mutilate, maim, incapacitate, enfeeble, weaken, hamstring He had been warned that another bad fall could cripple him for life.2. damage, destroy, ruin, bring to a standstill, halt, spoil, cramp, impair, put paid to, vitiate, put out of action A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country's economy.
damage help, further, aid, advance, promote, ease, assist, facilitate, fast-track, expedite, assist the progress of

cripple

verb1. To deprive of a limb or bodily member or its use:dismember, maim, mutilate.2. To render powerless or motionless, as by inflicting severe injury:disable, immobilize, incapacitate, knock out, paralyze.Idiom: put out of action.

Translations

使削弱使跛跛子

cripple

(ˈkripl) verb1. to make lame or disabled. He was crippled by a fall from a horse. 使跛 使跛2. to make less strong, less efficient etc. The war has crippled the country's economy. 削弱 使削弱 noun a lame or disabled person. He's been a cripple since the car accident. 跛子 跛子