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cripple

/ˈkɹɪpl/ · noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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