| 单词 | cripple |
| 释义 | cripple (once / 506 pages) vn To cripple is to leave someone unable to walk. Terrible car accidents, for example, can sometimes cripple their victims. Use the verb cripple to describe what is done to a person whose legs are so badly injured that they can't be used. You can also use the word in a figurative way, as when a parent's criticism and high expectations cripple a child's self esteem. In other words, they take away his strength and make him feel useless and unsuccessful. In the thirteenth century, cripple meant "to move slowly," from the Old English root crypel, "to bend." WORD FAMILYcripple: crippled, cripples, crippling+/crippling: cripplingly USAGE EXAMPLES“The prosecutors we see now,” he wrote on his Facebook page, “are nothing more or less than a pack of hyenas attacking a crippled lion.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Online sign-ups for his health care law were crippled by massive technical issues, resulting in one of the most embarrassing episodes of his presidency. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The past year was the year of “Crippled America,” the title of our new president-elect’s book. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg The accident has crippled her for life Syn|Hypo|Hyper lame hamstring cripple by cutting the hamstring maim injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation 2v deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless This measure crippled our efforts Syn|Hyper stultify weaken lessen the strength of 3n someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back Hypo|Hyper crookback, humpback, hunchback a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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