cripple
/ˈkɹɪpl/ · noun
Meaning
- (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- Scrapple.
- (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
- To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
- To damage seriously; to destroy
- To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- To nerf something which is overpowered
- Crippled.
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