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cripple

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

crip·ple / ˈkripəl/ • n. 1. dated, offens. a person who is unable to walk or move properly because of disability or injury to their back or legs. 2. a person who is disabled in a specified way: an emotional cripple. • v. [tr.] (often be crippled) cause (someone) to become unable to move or walk properly: a writer who was crippled by polio at the age of eleven. ∎ cause severe and disabling damage to (a machine). ∎ cause a severe and almost insuperable problem for: developing countries are crippled by their debts. DERIVATIVES: crip·pler / ˈkrip(ə)lər/ n.

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cripple

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

cripple sb. OE. crypel, ME. crüpel, corr. to OLG. krupil; also OE. crēopel, ME. crēpel, corr. to MLG., MDu. krēpel, rel. to CREEP.
Hence as vb. XIII.

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cripple

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

cripple •apple, chapel, chappal, Chappell, dapple, grapple, scrapple •scalpel •ample, trample •pineapple •carpal, carpel •example, sample •sepal •stemple, temple •maple, papal, staple •peepul, people, steeple •tradespeople • sportspeople •townspeople • workpeople •cripple, fipple, nipple, ripple, stipple, tipple, triple •dimple, pimple, simple, wimple •Oedipal • maniple • manciple •municipal •principal, principle •participle • multiple •archetypal, disciple, typal •prototypal •hopple, popple, stopple, topple •gospel •Constantinople, copal, nopal, opal, Opel •duple, pupal, pupil, scruple •quadruple • septuple • sextuple •quintuple • octuple •couple, supple •crumple, rumple, scrumple •syncopal • episcopal • purple

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