The meaning of CRIPPLE is a lame or partly disabled person or animal. How to use cripple in a sentence.

A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and derives from …

CRIPPLED definition: 1. unable to walk or move in the usual way because of injury or a medical condition 2. severely…. Learn more.

Crippled definition: relating to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.. See examples of CRIPPLED used in a sentence.

To cripple is to leave someone unable to walk. Terrible car accidents, for example, can sometimes cripple their victims. Use the verb cripple to describe what is done to a person whose legs are …

If someone is crippled by an injury, it is so serious that they can never move their body properly again.

[usually passive] to seriously damage or harm somebody/something be crippled (by something) The industry has been financially crippled by these policies. Sugar producers have been …

Thousands of people crippled by osteoporosis could benefit from a drug that can actually rebuild their bones. Her husband had a series of strokes which almost crippled him.

Synonyms for CRIPPLED: injured, damaged, broken, hurt, impaired, spoiled, disfigured, harmed; Antonyms of CRIPPLED: perfect, entire, whole, intact, complete, flawless, impeccable, faultless

crippled, adj. & n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary