cripple

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. countable,offensive,uncountable
    — He returned from war a cripple.
  2. A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way. broadly,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.
  3. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. countable,uncountable
  4. Scrapple. dialectal,uncountable
  5. A rocky shallow in a stream. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  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. figuratively
    — My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
  3. To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. figuratively
    — With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
  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.
  5. To nerf something to the point of being underpowered. slang
形容词 adj.
  1. Crippled. archaic,dated,not-comparable
    — And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

词形变化

creeple alternative cripples plural creeple alternative cripples present,singular,third-person crippling participle,present crippled participle,past crippled past creeple alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
becripple Cripple Creek crippledom crippleness cripplepunk crippler cripplesome crippleware cripply emotional cripple go it, ye cripples long-cripple nipple cripple
相关词
disfigurement lame paralysis disability

词源

词源 1
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 Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
词源 2
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 Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
词源 3
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 Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
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