cripple

Meanings

Adjective

• Crippled.

Noun

• a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
• 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

• to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
• to damage seriously; to destroy
• to cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally
• to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
• to nerf something which is overpowered

Related

Similar words

• disabled person
• limit, restrict

Origin

• From Middle English cripel, crepel, crupel, 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.