Meaning of cripple in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

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

  Example: He returned from war a cripple.

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

• Scrapple.

• (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

verb

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

  Example: The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

• To damage seriously; to destroy

  Example: My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

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

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

• To nerf something which is overpowered

adjective

• Crippled.