cripple :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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

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"

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, incapacitate, disenable

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

paralyze, paralyse, make powerless

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

deform, change form, change shape

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, wound seriously, injure seriously

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

murder, mangle, mutilate

v. press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

exhaust

v. empty by drawing out the contents

take apart, dismember

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

wound, injure

v. cause injuries or bodily harm to

break, damage

v. inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

mangle, maul

v. injure badly by beating

handicap, invalid, disable, incapacitate

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

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