cripple

Meanings

Plural: cripples

Noun

• someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
• A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
• A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
• Scrapple.
• A rocky shallow in a stream.

Verb

• deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
  • "This measure crippled our efforts"
• deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
  • "The accident has crippled her for life"
• To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
• To damage seriously; to destroy.
• To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
• To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
• To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

Adj

• crippled

Synonyms

abuse, aerosolize, annihilate, annoy, atomize, benothing, bewound, bewreck, blot out, blotto, cripple, damage, damnify, dash, decompose, demolish, dere, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disable, disabled, disenable, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, forwork, fuck, grieve, harm, harrow, harry, hurt, incapacitate, injure, jazz, lame, lay waste, level, limit, liquidate, maul, misdo, nuke, obliterate, pull down, pulverize, put someone in hospital, race, ravage, raze, remove, restrict, ruin, scaith, scathe, stamp out, stultify, total, unable, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, vulnerate, waste, wet, wipe off, wipe out, wound, wreck

Related Words

disability, disfigurement, lame, paralysis

Anagrams of cripple