OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20588

cripple

/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lisiado
Crippled.
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
Early treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]
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📚 noun • entry_id 20589

cripple

/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lisiada • lisiado
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.
I am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
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📚 verb • entry_id 20590

cripple

/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anquilosar • baldar • derrengar • discapacitar • lisiar • tullecer • tullir
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.