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Verb
crippled
- Past and present participle of to cripple.
Adjective
- Pertaining to someone with a less than fully functional limb, or has 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.
- Pertaining to 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, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&actsurround&offset637195715&tagTwain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+The+Tragedy+of+Pudd'nhead+Wilson,+1893&querycrippled&idTwa2Pud Pudd'nhead Wilson.]
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