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# cripple

«cripple» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who cannot walk or use a part of the body…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cripple, cripples); verb (cripple, cripples, crippled, crippling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use, now seen as hurtful) A person who cannot walk or use a part of the body properly; «disabled» is the kind word today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripple/#m1)

2) (verb) To damage something badly so it cannot work properly, or to make someone unable to move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripple/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the poor man who cannot walk; «the blind man and the cripple» is a story title

### examples

- The blind man and the cripple went to the fair together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripple/#x1)
- A storm can cripple a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripple/#x2)
- The accident crippled his left leg for a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripple/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cripple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.