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crippled

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪpəld/

adj

  1. Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.

    A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?

    So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia. The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.

  2. Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.

    a crippled version of the software, lacking many features

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of cripple