crippled

crip·ple (kr

1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple.

2. A damaged or defective object or device.

tr.v. crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples

1. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.

2. To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of: a strike that crippled the factory.

[Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.]

crippler n.

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Adj.

crippled - disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame

unfit - not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"

crippled

adjective disabled, handicapped, paralysed, lame, deformed, incapacitated, bedridden, housebound, enfeebled He looked after his senile, crippled mother.

Translations

crippled [ˈkrɪpld]

A. ADJ

1. (= maimed) → tullido, lisiado; (= disabled) → minusválido
he is crippled with arthritis → está paralizado por la artritis

2. (fig) [plane, vehicle] → averiado; [factory] (after bomb etc) → paralizado

B. NPL the crippled (= maimed) → los tullidos; (= disabled) → los minusválidos

crippled [ˈkrɪp^əld] adj

[person] (physically) (= lame) → boiteux/euse (= disabled) → handicapé(e)
crippled with rheumatism → perclus(e) de rhumatismes

(emotionally) crippled by shyness → bloqué(e) par la timidité

[economy, industry, production, exports] → paralysé(e); [country, region] → paralysé(e)

crippled [ˈkrɪpld] adj (handicapped) → invalido/a; (production, exports) → paralizzato/a (frm) (seriously damaged) → seriamente danneggiato/a

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The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.

The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context

I did not, I'll admit, make any public declaration of his existence, for the simple reason that it would have crippled our Company, and there are the interests of the shareholders to be considered, but I executed and signed a deed of partnership days ago which makes him an equal sharer in every penny I possess.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

Though very much crippled, Italy found 200,000 lire in the pockets of her people.

From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

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