cripple :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (1)

n. someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

Verbs (2)

v. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

lame

v. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"

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Fuzzynyms (31)

paraplegic

n. a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)

quadriplegic

n. a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs

disable, disenable, incapacitate

v. make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"

paralyze, paralyse

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

change shape, change form, deform

v. assume a different shape or form

heave, buckle, warp

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

gnarl

v. twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

maim

v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

mangle, mutilate, murder

v. alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"

exhaust

v. use up the whole supply of; "We have exhausted the food supplies"

dismember, take apart, discerp

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

injure, wound

v. cause injuries or bodily harm to

damage

v. suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"

maul, mangle

v. injure badly by beating

disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap

v. injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"

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