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crippled

[krip-uhld]

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adjective

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1. relating to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
2. relating to a person who is disabled or impaired in any way.
not operating or performing at the customary level; impaired; weakened.
Significant progress has been made in repairing the crippled power plant.
A telecommunications firm has signed a deal to get their crippled company back in business.

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Sensitive Note

Why is crippled offensive? See cripple ( def. ).

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Other Word Forms

uncrippled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of crippled¹

First recorded in 1300–50; cripple ( def. ) (verb) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Sanctions have crippled the Iranian economy, reducing a top oil exporter to a poor and struggling shadow of its former self.

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My vision of Queens, when it’s perfect, is: There’s a hill with the sun behind it, and this crippled army of minstrels comes over the horizon.

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But if injuries have crippled the Dodgers’ pitching, the offense simply crumbled Friday.

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The incident that has crippled M&S is a ransomware attack using the DragonForce cyber crime service.

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The Spanish grid operator has ruled out a cyber attack as the cause of a massive power cut that crippled Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday.

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