cripple
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(archaic, dated, not comparable)(now rare, dated) Crippled.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, offensive, uncountable)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.
Đồng nghĩa: disabled
- 2.
(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)(by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- 4.
(dialectal, uncountable)(uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
Đồng nghĩa: disable, disenable, cripple, incapacitate, unable
- 2.
(figuratively)To damage seriously; to destroy.
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
Đồng nghĩa: destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork, grieve, harm, harrow, hurt, injure, maul, misdo, put someone in hospital, scaith, scathe, vulnerate, wet, wound
- 3.
(figuratively)To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
- 4.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: limit, restrict
- 5.
(slang)(slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
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From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (crippled; a cripple), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (tending to crawl; a cripple), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (to bend, crouch, crawl), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to bend, twist), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with kreupel, Kröpel, Krüppel, kryppill.