Word Finder - cripple

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(sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

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He returned from war a cripple.

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A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

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Scrapple.

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(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

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To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

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The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

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To damage seriously; to destroy

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My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

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To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

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The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

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To nerf something which is overpowered

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Crippled.

Cripple Creek was at that time a cattle range.

Among the towns around Cripple Creek in the same mining district is Victor, pop. (I goo) 4986, incorporated in 1894, chartered as a city in 1898.

You lost everything in the worst way possible yet you don't let your past cripple you like it does … others, she managed.

The pain threatened to cripple him again.

They're gentle, but one misplaced foot could cripple a little thing like you.

Just one of the missing keypads was enough to cripple half the country.

Cripple Creek is situated on a mountain slope in a pocket amid the ranges, about 9600 ft.

Cripple Creek's site was frequently prospected after 1860, and "colours" and gold "float" were always found, but not until February 1891 was the source discovered.

He explained that it was his duty to levy as much as the nation could bear; but at the same time he must not cripple industry.

During his later years he had been a cripple in consequence of a fall in the Chamber of Deputies, and he fought the last of his many duels sitting in a chair.

Failure to act will see him financially cripple the club for years to come.

As it was impossible to establish a military cordon along the borders of Canaan, it was necessary absolutely to cripple the adjoining tribes.

The greatest part of the Cripple Creek mining properties is owned in Colorado Springs, where the exchange is one of the greatest in the world.

All the earlier evidence goes to show that only an informal understanding was arrived at, based on the de facto inability of either power to cripple the other (see Cimon).

Tromp, conscious that his ships were weaker in build, at first drew away, firing at the spars of the English ships in order to cripple them.

The Belgian capitalist class was seeking to cripple the workers organizations; the workers were moving to sweep capitalism away.

The Holy Spirit overruled, yet Peter's reply pulled no punches. By whose authority did we heal this cripple?

If the computer you are using is a business computer, it's possible the virus program can steal information or cripple the company's network by making it inoperable.

In later years the Cripple Creek district of Colorado became specially prominent.

This collective administration, designed to cripple the action of the regent, encountered a twofold opposition from the nobles and the parlement; but on the 2nd of September 1715 the emancipated parlement set aside the will in favor of the duke of Orleans, who thus together with the title of regent had all the real power.

Somewhat more than one-half of the Colorado gold is obtained from the Cripple Creek district.

The city is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Denver & Rio Grande, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (of which the city is a terminus), the Colorado & Southern, the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District (controlled by the Colorado & Southern), and the Colorado Midland railways, of which the first three are continental systems. Continuous on the west with Colorado Springs is Colorado City (pop. in 1900, 2914), one of the oldest settlements of Colorado, and the first capital (1861).

The Swedish crown prince rendered several important services to the allies during the campaign of 1813 (see Charles Xiv., king of Sweden); but, after Leipzig, he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and secure Norway.

Though sometimes necessary, these drugs cripple the immune response and are often misunderstood, abused, and over-prescribed.

But Jonathan's mother had passed away, and his father didn't want a cripple.

Though undoubtedly sparing his Swedes unduly, to the just displeasure of the allies, Charles John, as commander-in-chief of the northern army, successfully defended the approaches to Berlin against Oudinot in August and against Ney in September; but after Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and secure Norway.

Yes, this process can be very overwhelming, which is why preventative measures to cripple the chance of re-infection are always a wise path.

If you're buying shoes for your prom, wedding, or any other big party, remember that you'll be spending a lot of time on your feet, and a lot of time dancing - or at least, you will do as long as your shoes don't cripple you!

South of Pikes Peak, you'll find Cripple Creek, a sleepy mining town, little changed since the late 19th century.

On the opposing side, many experts and parents say that digital watches cripple the learning process.

If there is one sure way to cripple a country, it is to destabilize it's economic machine.

In districts like that of Cripple Creek their enormous ore "dumps" dot the mountain flanks like scores of vast ant-hills; and in Eagle River canyon their mouths, like dormer windows into the granite mountain roof, may be seen 2000 ft.

The latter were Denver (133,859), Pueblo (28,137), Colorado Springs (21,085), Leadville (12,455), Cripple Creek (10,147), Boulder (6150) and Trinidad (5345) Creede, county-seat of Mineral county, was a phenomenal silver camp from its discovery in 1891 until 1893; in 1892 it numbered already 7000 inhabitants, but the rapid depreciation of silver soon thereafter caused most of its mines to be closed, and in 1900 the population was only 938.

In 1907 the total bonded debt of the state was $393500; the General Assembly in 1906 authorized the issue of $900,000 worth of bonds to fund outstanding military certificates of indebtedness incurred in suppressing insurrections at Cripple Creek and elsewhere in 1903-1904.

That officer, when over seventy years, and having already nine daughters and one son, because that son was a cripple, sought an alliance with a gentleman of the Yen clan, who had three daughters.

You lost everything in the worst way possible yet you don't let your past cripple you like it does … others, she managed.

They had similar cool reserve, unlike Damian and Jule, and had both survived ordeals that would cripple anyone else.

The French king therefore found it easy to form a temporary alliance with Russell, Hollis and the opposition leaders, by which they engaged to cripple the king's power of hurting France and to compel him to seek Louis's friendship, - that friendship, however, to be given only on the condition that they in their turn should have Louis's support for their cherished objects.

Ransome, Geology and Gold Deposits of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, with maps (Washington, 5906), being Professional Paper No.

The Cripple Creek field in the last-named county is one of the most wonderful mining districts, past or present, of America.

Rose also carried out experiments on the decomposition of cryolite, and expressed an opinion that it was the best of all compounds for reduction; but, finding the yield of metal to be low, receiving a report of the difficulties experienced in mining the ore, and fearing to cripple his new industry by basing it upon the employment of a mineral of such uncertain supply, Deville decided to keep to his chlorides.

He boldly attacked the van, hoping to cripple it before it could be helped by the centre and rear.

He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to everybody, for another ten years.