Cripple

/ˈkɹɪpl/

noun

  1. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

    He returned from war a cripple.

  2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

  3. Scrapple.

Synonyms: disabled

verb

  1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

    The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

  2. To damage seriously; to destroy

    My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

  3. To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

    The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

Synonyms: limit, restrict

adjective

  1. Crippled.

cripple

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