cripple

1. 1.

   someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

   Broaderperson

   Narrowerhumpback

Other forms of cripple

plural

cripples·

past tense

crippled·

present participle

crippling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cripple

What does cripple mean?

cripple means "deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cripple?

cripple has 2 syllables: crip-ple. The stress falls on "crip". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪpəl/.

What is another word for cripple?

Close synonyms include stultify, lame. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cripple a common word?

cripple is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.