cripple

/ˈkɹɪpl/

noun

  1. 1

    (sometimes offensive) 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.
  2. 2

    A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

  3. 3

    Scrapple.

  4. 4

    (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

    The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
  2. 2

    To damage seriously; to destroy

    My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
  3. 3

    To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

    The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
  4. 4

    To nerf something which is overpowered

adjective

  1. 1

    Crippled.

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