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CRIPPLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disabled in the feet or legs
Example:
a game leg
Synonyms:
crippled; game; gimpy; halt; halting; lame
Classified under:
Similar:
unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cripple
Context examples:
He had the wheel at the time, and I went forward to my hospital in the forecastle, where lay the two crippled men, Nilson and Thomas Mugridge.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have the clearest claim upon half of their present estate, and if they could have found a single paper—which, fortunately, was in the strong-box of my solicitors—they would undoubtedly have crippled our case.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim feel of his feet.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
