CRIPPLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does cripple mean?
• CRIPPLE (noun)
The noun CRIPPLE has 1 sense:
1. someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
Familiarity information: CRIPPLE used as a noun is very rare.
• CRIPPLE (verb)
The verb CRIPPLE has 2 senses:
1. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
2. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
Familiarity information: CRIPPLE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CRIPPLE (noun)
Meaning:
Someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("cripple" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cripple"):
crookback; humpback; hunchback (a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine)
• CRIPPLE (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
cripple; stultify
Context examples:
This measure crippled our efforts / Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work
Hypernyms (to "cripple" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
lame; cripple
Context example:
The accident has crippled her for life
Hypernyms (to "cripple" is one way to...):
maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cripple"):
hamstring (cripple by cutting the hamstring)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
