cripple

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And this cripple was the one who seemed most puzzled by Fred's appearance in the place.

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  1. noun 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. noun A damaged or defective object or device.
  3. transitive verb To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

devastate ·  debilitate ·  invalid ·  beggar ·  grievous ·  orphan ·  wanderer ·  overwhelm ·  outcast ·  fatal ·  bodily ·  unbearable

Used in the same contextWord Family

cripple:   crippling ·  cripples ·  crippled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.

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  1. Cf. dial. crecple; from Middle English cripel, crepel, crepul, crypel, crupel, etc., from Old Northumbrian crypel (in comp. eorth-crypel, a paralytic, literally a ground-creeper) (= OFries. kreppel, North Friesic krebel, krabel = Middle Low German kropel, krepel, Low German kröpel = Dutch kreppel, kropel, kreupel = Old High German kruppel, Middle High German kruppel, MG. krupel, kropel, German krüppel = Icelandic kryppill = Danish kröbbel (found only as adjective and in comp.), diminutive kröbling; cf. Swedish krympling, akin to English crump); with suffix -el, from Anglo-Saxon creópan (past participle cropen), creep: see creep, and cf. creeper.
  2. from Middle English cripelen (= Low German G. kröpeln), intransitive, creep, crawl; properly freq. of crepen, creep, but resting partly on crepel, cripel, etc., a creeper, cripple: see cripple, n. As transitive, cripple, v., is from the noun.
 

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