CRIPPLED

crippled

Verb

crippled

Adjective

  1. Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
    1848 "A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?" — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 17.
  2. Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
    1893 The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate. — Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson.


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