Crippled
['krɪpld]
Definition
(adj.) disabled in the feet or legs; 'a crippled soldier'; 'a game leg' .
Inputed by Cornelia--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Cripple
(a.) Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.
Edited by Ivan
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the maimed and crippled, denotes famine and distress among the poor, and you should be willing to contribute to their store. It also indicates a temporary dulness in trade.
Typist: Sophie
Examples
- France was humiliated and crippled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why a thousand people are not run over and crippled every day is a mystery that no man can solve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ah, they were his old friends, but badly crippled. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- My crippled strength! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For the burning of the chief city seems to have stimulated rather than crippled her energies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The crippled peasant remained for some time looking after them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He wanted Germany so crippled and devastated as never more to be able to stand up to France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I would I had not trusted Malkin to his keeping, for, crippled as I am with the cold rheum, I am undone if aught but good befalls her. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was cruel to urge the crippled horses, but it had to be done in order to make Damascus Saturday night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Inward emotion could likewise give colour to his cheek and decision to his crippled movements. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mary Domville's little crippled boy would crawl in vain to the door and look for her coming through the forest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I hope yet that Hood will be badly crippled if not destroyed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She might have been sixty, but was older than that by hard work and disease, was partially blind, and somewhat crippled with rheumatism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Sophie