CRIPPLE — Definition of CRIPPLE
noun
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
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3
Scrapple.
4
(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
verb
1
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
2
To damage seriously; to destroy
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
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
To nerf something which is overpowered
adjective
1
Crippled.
📚 Source: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cripple
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