crippled
adj/ˈkɹɪpəld/
1
Offensive, Usually Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
- A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
- So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia. The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.1971, Eric Bogle, “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”:
2
Informal Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
- a crippled version of the software, lacking many features
- Antonyms
- noncrippled, uncrippled
- Derived terms
- crippledness