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cripple |
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cripple Noun offensive 1. a person who is lame or disabled 2. a person with a mental or social problem: an emotional cripple Verb [-pling, -pled] 1. to make a cripple of 2. to damage (something) [Old English crypel] crippled adj
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cripple verb 1. disable, paralyse, lame, debilitate, mutilate, maim, incapacitate, enfeeble, weaken, hamstring Translationsvt [+ person] → estropier, paralyser [+ ship, plane]; immobiliser [+ production, exports]; paralyser; crippled with rheumatism → perclus(e) de rhumatismes (ship, plane) → aktionsunfähig machen; (production, exports) → lahmlegen, lähmen; |
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He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine, for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Like a cripple become deaf, and blind, and dumb--thus have I lived long; that I might not live with the power-rabble, the scribe-rabble, and the pleasure-rabble. I was just as old as Joseph when my father and mother died of the fever within ten days of each other, and left me and my cripple sister Nelly alone in the world, without a relation that we could look to for help. |
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