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Definition of Cripple

Cripple

  1. One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
  2. Lame; halting.
  3. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
  4. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
  5. Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.
  6. A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.

Cripple Quotations

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
Jerry Lewis

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
Teri Garr

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
L. Neil Smith
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