Cripple

Definitions

1. A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
   countable, offensive, uncountable
2. A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
   broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
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

Equivalents

Examples

“He returned from war a cripple.”

“I am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind⟳, the reader must determine⟳.”

“Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect⟳ it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.”

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