Definition von „cripple“ auf Englisch

adjective

1. (now rare, dated) Crippled.

noun

1. (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

   • He returned from war a cripple.

2. (by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.

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

4. (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.

5. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

verb

1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.

   • The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

2. (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.

   • My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

3. (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.

4. 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.

5. (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.