cripple

About 1.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Crippled.
2. noun 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.

3. noun A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
4. noun A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
5. noun Scrapple.
6. noun A rocky shallow in a stream.
7. verb To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.

   The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

8. verb To damage seriously; to destroy.

   My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

Similar words

lame halt weaken infirmity maim mutilate infirm disrupt handicap hinder

Often followed by

the creek and or for a in who their

Word family

crippled cripples crippling cripplingly