| 单词 | cripple |
| 释义 | cripple —crippler, n. —cripplingly, adv. /krip"euhl/, n. , v. , crippled, crippling, adj. n. 1. Sometimes Offensive. a. a person or animal that is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs; a lame or disabled person or animal. b. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple. 2. anything that is impaired or flawed. 3. a wounded animal, esp. one shot by a hunter. 4. Carpentry. any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a window sill. 5. Delaware Valley. a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land. v.t. 6. to make a cripple of; lame. 7. to disable; impair; weaken. adj. 8. Carpentry. jack1 (def. 29). [bef. 950; ME cripel, OE crypel; akin to CREEP] Syn. 7. maim. CRIPPLE, DISABLE mean to injure to a degree that interferes with normal activities. To CRIPPLE is to injure in such a way as to deprive of the use of a member, particularly a leg. DISABLE, a more general word, implies any such illness, injury, or impairment: disabled by an attack of malaria; disabled by a wound. |
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