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# crippled

«crippled» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unable to walk or use part of the body properly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unable to walk or use part of the body properly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crippled/#m1)

2) Badly damaged, so that it cannot work well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crippled/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a person or creature who cannot move properly, or a tree or thing that has been damaged by age

### examples

- The crippled beggar sat by the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crippled/#x1)
- An old tree, a little crippled by age, still stood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crippled/#x2)
- The crippled boat limped back to the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crippled/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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