cripple

n.

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., -pled, -pling, -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 crip'pler n.

verb

1. To deprive of a limb or bodily member or its use: dismember, maim, mutilate. See help/harm/harmless.
2. To render powerless or motionless, as by inflicting severe injury: disable, immobilize, incapacitate, knock out, paralyze. Idioms: put out ofactioncommission. See help/harm/harmless.

v

Definition: disable; make lame
Antonyms: aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support

v

Definition: hinder action, progress
Antonyms: aid, allow, assist, capacitate, encourage, help

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1. In a building frame, a structural element that is shorter than usual, as a stud above a door opening or below a windowsill.
2. In roofing, a bracket that anchors at the ridge line and carries scaffold platforms for roofing workers.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - krøbling
v. tr. - gøre til krøbling, lemlæste, invalidere, lamme, svække

Nederlands (Dutch)
invalide, verlammen, belemmeren, verzwakken

Français (French)
n. - boiteux, infirme, impotent (injur)
v. tr. - estropier, traumatiser, (fig) paralyser, désemparer (bateau), mettre (qch) hors d'usage, écraser (qn, etc)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Krüppel
v. - zum Krüppel machen, lahmlegen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανάπηρος, σακάτης
v. - σακατεύω

Italiano (Italian)
paralizzare, storpiare, menomare, storpio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - aleijado (m)
v. - estropiar

Русский (Russian)
калечить, инвалид

Español (Spanish)
n. - lisiado, minusválido
v. tr. - tullir, lisiar, mutilar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - krympling, invalid, ställning för fönsterputsare
v. - göra till krympling, lamslå (bildl.), göra obrukbar, omintetgöra, halta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
跛子, 残废的人, 使跛, 削弱, 使成残废

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 跛子, 殘廢的人
v. tr. - 使跛, 削弱, 使成殘廢

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 신체 장애자, 절뚝발이, 늪지대
v. tr. - 불구가 되게 하다, 손상하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 足の不自由な人, 身体障害者
v. - 足を不自由にする, 不具にする, 無力にする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كسيح, مقعد, أعرج (فعل) أقعد, أعجز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נכה, בעל מום‬
v. tr. - ‮פגע, שיבש, הטיל מום, החליש‬

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