Definizione monolingua

cripple

cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)

1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability

   The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

2. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy

   My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

3. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

   The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

cripple (plural cripples)

1. (usually offensive) a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

   He returned from war a cripple.

2. a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3. (dialect, US South except Louisiana) scrapple.

cripple (comparative more cripple, superlative most cripple)

1. Crippled.
   • 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1

     And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

Definizione dizionario cripple

azzoppare

invalido

mutilare

mutilato

paralizzare

storpiare

storpio

zoppo

Altri significati:

(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy

(usually offensive) a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

to give someone a physical disability

a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability

(dialect, US South except Louisiana) scrapple.

person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities

A person or animal that is partially unable to use a limb or limbs.

to damage seriously; to destroy

to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

Crippled.

Crippled