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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p. pr & vb n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use to disable; to deprive of resources; as to be financially crippled. More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crippling \Crip"pling\ (-pl?ng), n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crippling adj : that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: {disabling}, {incapacitating}]
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