cripple
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Pronunciation
[change]- IPA (key): /krɪpl/
- SAMPA: /kr\Ipl/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: crip‧ple
Noun
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- (countable) (old, no longer used) (offensive) 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.
Verb
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- (transitive) If you cripple something, you damage it so that it cannot work normally.
- The game is crippled with a 60-minute free version until Mom buys it.
- (transitive) To injure or harm someone so that they are unable to walk or move in the usual way.
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.