cripple
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cripple
- /ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/
Rhymes with -ɪpəl
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.?
Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
Proto-Germanic *krupilaz
Proto-West Germanic *krupil
Old English crypel
Middle English crepelder.
English cripple
From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
adjective creeple
- Crippled. And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
noun cripples · creeple
- 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.
- A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way. Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.
- 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 cripples · crippling · crippled · creeple
- To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired. The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- To damage seriously; to destroy. My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
- 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.
- To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
