Meaning of "cripple" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CRIPPLE

Old English crypel; related to crēopan to creep, Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpel.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CRIPPLE

cripple  [ˈkrɪpəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRIPPLE

Cripple is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cripple in English.

WHAT DOES CRIPPLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cripple

A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and derives from the Proto-Germanic krupilaz. The German and Dutch words Krüppel and kreupel are cognates. By the 1970s, the word generally came to be regarded as pejorative when used for people with disabilities. Cripple is also a transitive verb, meaning "cause a disability or inability".

Definition of cripple in the English dictionary

The first definition of cripple in the dictionary is a person who is lame. Other definition of cripple is a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way. Cripple is also a dense thicket, usually in marshy land.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CRIPPLE

PRESENT

Present

I cripple

you cripple

he/she/it cripples

we cripple

you cripple

they cripple

Present continuous

I am crippling

you are crippling

he/she/it is crippling

we are crippling

you are crippling

they are crippling

Present perfect

I have crippled

you have crippled

he/she/it has crippled

we have crippled

you have crippled

they have crippled

Present perfect continuous

I have been crippling

you have been crippling

he/she/it has been crippling

we have been crippling

you have been crippling

they have been crippling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I crippled

you crippled

he/she/it crippled

we crippled

you crippled

they crippled

Past continuous

I was crippling

you were crippling

he/she/it was crippling

we were crippling

you were crippling

they were crippling

Past perfect

I had crippled

you had crippled

he/she/it had crippled

we had crippled

you had crippled

they had crippled

Past perfect continuous

I had been crippling

you had been crippling

he/she/it had been crippling

we had been crippling

you had been crippling

they had been crippling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will cripple

you will cripple

he/she/it will cripple

we will cripple

you will cripple

they will cripple

Future continuous

I will be crippling

you will be crippling

he/she/it will be crippling

we will be crippling

you will be crippling

they will be crippling

Future perfect

I will have crippled

you will have crippled

he/she/it will have crippled

we will have crippled

you will have crippled

they will have crippled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been crippling

you will have been crippling

he/she/it will have been crippling

we will have been crippling

you will have been crippling

they will have been crippling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would cripple

you would cripple

he/she/it would cripple

we would cripple

you would cripple

they would cripple

Conditional continuous

I would be crippling

you would be crippling

he/she/it would be crippling

we would be crippling

you would be crippling

they would be crippling

Conditional perfect

I would have cripple

you would have cripple

he/she/it would have cripple

we would have cripple

you would have cripple

they would have cripple

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been crippling

you would have been crippling

he/she/it would have been crippling

we would have been crippling

you would have been crippling

they would have been crippling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you cripple
we let´s cripple
you cripple

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to cripple

Past participle

crippled

Present Participle

crippling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CRIPPLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cripple» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of cripple

cramp · damage · debilitate · destroy · disable · enfeeble · halt · hamstring · impair · incapacitate · lame · maim · mutilate · paralyse · put paid to · ruin · spoil · vitiate · weaken

TRANSLATION OF CRIPPLE

Find out the translation of cripple to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cripple from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cripple» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 使受伤致残
• Translator English - Spanish: lisiarse
• English: cripple
• Translator English - Hindi: अपंग
• Translator English - Arabic: شل
• Translator English - Russian: калечить
• Translator English - Portuguese: aleijar
• Translator English - Bengali: কাক
• Translator English - French: rendre infirme
• Translator English - Malay: Cacat
• Translator English - German: zum Krüppel machen
• Translator English - Japanese: 身体障害を負わせる
• Translator English - Korean: 불구가 되다
• Translator English - Javanese: Cripple
• Translator English - Vietnamese: làm hư
• Translator English - Tamil: முடக்க
• Translator English - Marathi: पांगळे
• Translator English - Turkish: sakat
• Translator English - Italian: menomare
• Translator English - Polish: okaleczyć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: калічити
• Translator English - Romanian: infirm
• Translator English - Greek: ακρωτηριάσει
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kreupel
• Translator English - Swedish: krympling
• Translator English - Norwegian: krøpling

10 QUOTES WITH «CRIPPLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cripple.

1

Uzo Aduba

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

2

Ernest Bramah

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

3

David D. Burns

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

4

Jim Dale

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

5

Philip Hammond

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

6

Richard Hatch

I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.

7

David Lehman

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

8

Jerry Lewis

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

9

Jim Morrison

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

10

Wilhelm Ostwald

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRIPPLE»

Discover the use of cripple in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cripple and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Hot Cripple: An Incurable Smart-ass Takes on the Health Care ...

Inspired by her acclaimed one-woman show, this is a bitingly funny and keenly observed account of the cracks in our medical and social welfare system and how one woman's resilience combined with a generous dollop of humor helped her fight ...

Hogan Gorman, 2012

The Good Cripple

The Good Crippleobsessively focused, chilling, allegoricalis stunningly explosive. With its enigmatic beginning, however, and its circular relentless structure, the novel is also dense with ideas: can one be whole after mutilation?

Rodrigo Rey Rosa, 2004

Hooky the Cripple: The Grim Tale of a Hunchback Who Triumphs

He is also the subject of the acclaimed movie 'Chopper'. The illustrator's work has been exhibited worldwide and won the Archibald Prize in 2000.

Mark Brandon Read, Mark 'Chopper' Read, 2002

Cripple Poetics

Cripple Poetics preserves and unfolds the artifacts of an original and timely love story that might otherwise have remained shrouded in a small, forgotten corner of cyberspace.

Petra Kuppers, Neil Marcus, 2008

Cripple Creek Days

Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

Mabel Barbee Lee, 1984

The Dragon of Cripple Creek

Praise for The Dragon of Cripple Creek “Writing in Kat’s first-person narrative, which is wry and funny, clipped and eloquent, Howell, best known as an illustrator, mixes fantasy adventure with a moving conservation story in a debut ...

Troy Howell, 2011

Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A ...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nicholas A. Cummings, William T. O'Donohue, 2010

To Cripple a Butterfly: A Memoir

Or would she find her mother could pimp her out just as easily as her sisters? Follow Jetta's life from adolescence to adulthood in part one of this heartbreaking memoir -To Cripple a Butterfly.

Jetta Remonia Owens, Debra Walter, 2011

Enemy, Cripple, Beggar: Shadows in the Hero's Path

In 'Shadows in the Hero's Path: the Enemy, the Cripple, and the Beggar,' Erel Shalit provides new thoughts and views on the concepts of Hero and Shadow.

Erel Shalit, 2008

The Empire of Kalman the Cripple

Kalman, a Jew living in Poland just before World War II, is a cunning, ill-tempered man who maliciously seeks revenge on others, but who ultimately claws out a better world for those he loves 'When the community elder Reb Jonah Swerdl ...

Yehudah Elberg, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRIPPLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cripple is used in the context of the following news items.

Heat & bandh cripple Assam

Heat & bandh cripple Assam. - Six organisations demand scheduled tribe status. Our Bureau. Bandh supporters shout slogans and burn tyres ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»

Cripple Creek museums to get new upgrades

Cripple Creek's two main museums have hit the historic preservation jackpot for close to $20,000 this year. But in the wake of these awards, ... «The Mountain Jackpot, Jul 15»

Cripple Creek Cloggers To Perform for Chinese Group at MTSU

Rutherford County's famous Cripple Creek Cloggers will perform this Saturday night (7/11/2015) for a delegation from China at MTSU's Student ... «Wgnsradio, Jul 15»

Rogue car dealer threatened amputee soldier and called him a …

A car dealer who called an amputee soldier a '******* cripple' and threatened to have him beaten up has been jailed. Reading Crown Court ... «ITV News, Jul 15»

How America's Lax Gun Laws Help Criminals and Cripple Minority …

In the wake of the massacre at Charleston's African Methodist Episcopal Church last month, gun rights advocates have been quick to seize the ... «VICE, Jul 15»

Wilayat Sinai fails to cripple Egyptian army

SHEIKH ZUWEID, Egypt — On the morning of July 1, 2015, Sinai witnessed a new series of highly complicated developments, following ... «Al-Monitor, Jul 15»

Newmont Mining Acquires Cripple Creek from AngloGold

Newmont Mining (NEM) announced on June 8 that it has a purchase agreement to acquire the CC&V (Cripple Creek & Victor) gold mine from ... «Market Realist, Jul 15»

Disgruntled moderators cripple Reddit following loss of AMA chief

The self-proclaimed 'front page of the internet' has parted ways with Victoria Taylor, who was largely responsible for securing and coordinating ... «TrustedReviews, Jul 15»

“Untouchable” Israel continues to cripple Gaza with its sea blockade

Israel's military thugs are once more raiding mercy ships on the high seas in an effort to prevent humanitarian aid reaching the 1.8 million souls ... «Redress Information & Analysis, Jul 15»

Police cripple human trafficking, save six women

Police cripple human trafficking, save six women. By Roy Goh - 2 July 2015 @ 8:46 PM. KOTA KINABALU: Police crippled a vice syndicate with the arrest of a ... «New Straits Times Online, Jul 15»