CRIPPLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crippled mean? 

• CRIPPLED (adjective)
  The adjective CRIPPLED has 1 sense:

1. disabled in the feet or legs

  Familiarity information: CRIPPLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIPPLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disabled in the feet or legs

Synonyms:

crippled; game; gimpy; halt; halting; lame

Context example:

a game leg

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

 Context examples 

Both men were wounded, and he was thrashing them both for having disobeyed his orders and crippled themselves in advance of the hunting season.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"My seared vision! My crippled strength!" he murmured regretfully.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we complain that Jim Harrison has been crippled, they would answer that they have no official knowledge that Jim Harrison was our nominee.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The wolves were now in the country of game, and though they still hunted in pack, they hunted more cautiously, cutting out heavy cows or crippled old bulls from the small moose-herds they ran across.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

To add to our concern, we heard voices already drawing near us in the woods along shore, and we had not only the danger of being cut off from the stockade in our half-crippled state but the fear before us whether, if Hunter and Joyce were attacked by half a dozen, they would have the sense and conduct to stand firm.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then she came down the street with her eyes blazing, and I saw the crippled wretch standing by the lamp-post and shaking his clenched fists in the air as if he were mad with rage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)