cripple
A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury,…A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
Meaning
5 senses(countable, offensive, uncountable)A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
He returned from war a cripple.
Krüppel
кале́каkaléka, инвали́дinvalíd, инвали́дкаinvalídka
калі́каkalíka, інвалі́дinvalíd, інвалі́дкаinvalídka
someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
(countable, uncountable)A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
(dialectal, uncountable)Scrapple.
(countable, uncountable)A rocky shallow in a stream.
Examples
64 sentencesTranslations
9 languagesOrigin
From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
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Forms
plural: cripplesLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable