crippled

  • 1Crippled — Crip pled (kr?p p ld), a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. The crippled crone. Longfellow. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2crippled — index defective, disabled (made incapable), helpless (powerless), imperfect, incapable, marred, powerless …

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  • 3crippled — [adj] disabled bedridden, broken, damaged, defective, deformed, enfeebled, game, gimp*, halt, hamstrung*, handicapped, harmed, hog tied*, housebound, impaired, incapacitated, laid up*, lame, maimed, mangled, marred, mutilated, out of commission* …

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  • 4Crippled — This is a medically outmoded and politically incorrect term today. However, in the not so distant past there were U.S. federal funds appropriated for crippled children. (This writer served as a physician in the Crippled Children s Division,… …

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  • 5Crippled — Cripple Crip ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} ( p ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} ( pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. [1913 Webster] He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W.… …

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  • 6crippled — adjective a) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility. 1848 A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on? Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, [ Chapter 17.] b) Having any difficulty… …

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  • 7crippled — adjective crippled soldiers Syn: disabled, paralyzed, incapacitated, physically handicapped, lame, immobilized, bedridden, in a wheelchair, paraplegic, quadriplegic; euphemistic physically challenged …

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  • 8crippled — un·crippled; …

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  • 9crippled — adjective disabled in the feet or legs (Freq. 1) a crippled soldier a game leg • Syn: ↑halt, ↑halting, ↑lame, ↑gimpy, ↑game • S …

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  • 10Crippled Summer — South Park episode Jimmy and Timmy with fellow campmates. Episode no. Season 14 Episode 7 …

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