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cripple English

Meaning cripple meaning

What does cripple mean?
Definitions in simple English

cripple Noun

— A cripple is a person whose mobility has been impaired or disabled. The cripple couldn't find a job and started to beg on the streets.

cripple Verb

— If you cripple something, you damage it so that it cannot work normally. The car crash crippled him, and now he can't walk. The game is crippled with a 60-minute free version until Mom buys it.

cripple

— verb (= stultify) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless This measure crippled our efforts Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work — noun someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back — verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg The accident has crippled her for life

Synonyms cripple synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cripple?

cripple English » English

lame maim mutilate disable invalid disabled person injure disabled paraplegic lame person hamstring disfigure wound twist stultify spastic paralytic make lame incapacitate hobble handicapped person handicap freak damage be lame wrack weaken vaporize vandalize vandalise upset transfix total throw into disorder the halt subvert shipwreck raze pulverise prostrate plunder person in need pauper paretic paralyzed paralyze paralysed paralyse palsy victim pain

Topics cripple topics

What do people use cripple to talk about?
Person Healthy

Disabled

Conjugation cripple conjugation

How do you conjugate cripple?

cripple · verb

Examples cripple examples

How do I use cripple in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Because I don't want to marry, my grandmother called me a cripple.
It's because of you that I'm a cripple!
I'm a cripple.
Little Mary was only seven years old when the sad event happened which made her a suffering cripple for life.
Tom is a cripple.

Movie subtitles

I won't be a cripple. - Now, now.
A bullet can cripple you for life!
You realize there's an even chance of never corning back alive. a still greater chance of coming back a cripple.
I understand you are thinking of building a railroad. from Cripple Creek north around the mountain.
I'd say the straightest way to go. would be from Cripple Creek here straight through to the Pacific.
Look, she's a cripple too.
Me, the cripple!
Proud of their numbers and secure in soul, the confident and over-Iusty French do the low-rated English play at dice, and chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who like a foul and ugly witch doth limp so tediously away.
A poor cripple dying of hunger and thirst.
It belonged to a cripple who accused his wife, just as you're now accusing me.
But after all, he's a cripple.
To see the cripple closely.
That cripple was really scared to death.
He told me, he wasn't going to feel shy if people looked at him because he was a cripple, as it might be pleasant to them, being in church, to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
You always only speak about yourself who are good-looking and endowed with charm, and you forget me, the cripple.
A fool, a cripple!
It's a shame, flogging that cripple.
He's no more a cripple than you are.
He's a cripple.
You say Judge Brisson's a cripple? Yes.
A crude device Judge Brisson but it's confirmed my suspicions that you're not the cripple you pretend to be.
Nobody suspected Stinky, because he'd been a cripple since nitro went off while he was cracking a canister in Salt Lake.
They told him it was a hophead theory. Wild as loco buttons because Stinky was a cripple and couldn't navigate.
Stinky wasn't a cripple at all.
I won't be a cripple.
Say, do I look like a cripple or something?
Not bad for a girl and an old cripple piled up in bed.
He wanted to see you turn into a lifelong cripple, mentally, as well as physically.
I feel you treat me like a cripple.
Your maid, that untidy little cripple?
Loathsome little cripple. Why should you have been permitted to live and not my son?
Summoned in the best heroic tradition by the faithful little cripple.
Are you a cripple?
Whenever Louis gets into trouble, you're around. You dirty cripple!
If I had no respect for where I am, and the date we're celebrating, my dear cripple.
Because I'm a cripple? Is that it?
Because I'm a cripple?
It makes no difference to me that you are a cripple.

News and current affairs

The highest priority problem is the overall budget's medium-run outlook, as the Bush tax cuts have opened Reagan-size deficits that threaten to cripple US economic growth.
Abandoning the euro, for example, would cripple the continent's banking system, affecting both Germany and the affluent north and the distressed countries in the south.
Haiti requires urgent financial support to put children in schools, and to reduce diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS which now cripple and kill many.
First, a naval blockade (reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis) that halted both Iran's oil exports and imports of refined fuel would cripple the country's economy.
South Africa's courts have become a political battleground, as Mbeki and his allies use corruption charges to try to cripple Zuma's candidacy.

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