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Synonyms for cripple

Grammar : Verb
Spell : krip-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkrɪp əl

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Définition of cripple

Origin :
  • Old English crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (cf. Old Frisian kreppel, Middle Dutch cropel, German krüppel, Old Norse kryppill). Possibly also related to Old English creopan "to creep" (creopere, literally "creeper," was another Old English word for "crippled person").
  • verb disable; make lame
  • verb hinder action, progress
Example sentences :
  • His intention was neither to kill nor to cripple his antagonist.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • “The man is virtually a cripple,” he added with unmistakable feeling.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • Then the cripple said to him: “If you are afraid, then you cannot become an Immortal!”
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • He was evidently a cripple, propped up in a strange wheelchair.
  • Extract from : « The Heads of Apex » by Francis Flagg
  • The first of these he might, perhaps, solve after a fashion, but the second—and he a cripple!
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • I only wound and cripple myself by trying to tear it down, or break through it.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • And the Germans are working hard and not unsuccessfully to cripple it.
  • Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
  • “By cunning and skill a cripple can do what he will,” said the Goose.
  • Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
  • "Sure the gentleman isn't a bailiff nor a polisman," broke in the cripple, rebukingly.
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • "We wor to bring the doctor on our back, I hope," said a cripple in a bowl.
  • Extract from : « The O'Donoghue » by Charles James Lever

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