Word Meanings - CRIPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more

Additional info about word: CRIPPLE

One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more info) , prop., one that

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRIPPLE)

• Cramp
• Bind
• narrow
• restrict
• confine
• clog
• hamper
• fetter
• cripple
• Injure
• Damage
• wound
• hurt
• wrong
• impair
• maltreat
• mar
• spoil
• sully
• harm
• maim
• Disable
• mutilate
• mangle
• disfigure
• lame

Related words: (words related to CRIPPLE)

• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• SULLY
  To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. Roscommon. No spots to sully the brightness of this
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• MANGLE
  A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure. Mangle rack , a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• DISABLEMENT
  Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• INJURE
  To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• DISABLE
  Lacking ability; unable. "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• CRAMP
  A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• MERCHANDISABLE
  Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• ENDAMAGE
  To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• MUTILATE
  Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. (more info) 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.