Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cripple
Participle: crippled
Gerund: crippling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cripple |
| you | cripple |
| he;she;it | cripples |
| we | cripple |
| you | cripple |
| they | cripple |
Perfect
| I | have crippled |
| you | have crippled |
| he;she;it | has crippled |
| we | have crippled |
| you | have crippled |
| they | have crippled |
Past
| I | crippled |
| you | crippled |
| he;she;it | crippled |
| we | crippled |
| you | crippled |
| they | crippled |
Pluperfect
| I | had crippled |
| you | had crippled |
| he;she;it | had crippled |
| we | had crippled |
| you | had crippled |
| they | had crippled |
Future
| I | will cripple |
| you | will cripple |
| he;she;it | will cripple |
| we | will cripple |
| you | will cripple |
| they | will cripple |
Future Perfect
| I | will have crippled |
| you | will have crippled |
| he;she;it | will have crippled |
| we | will have crippled |
| you | will have crippled |
| they | will have crippled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cripple |
| you | cripple |
| he;she;it | cripple |
| we | cripple |
| you | cripple |
| they | cripple |
Perfect
| I | have crippled |
| you | have crippled |
| he;she;it | have crippled |
| we | have crippled |
| you | have crippled |
| they | have crippled |
Imperfect
| I | crippled |
| you | crippled |
| he;she;it | crippled |
| we | crippled |
| you | crippled |
| they | crippled |
Pluperfect
| I | had crippled |
| you | had crippled |
| he;she;it | had crippled |
| we | had crippled |
| you | had crippled |
| they | had crippled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cripple |
| you | would cripple |
| he;she;it | would cripple |
| we | would cripple |
| you | would cripple |
| they | would cripple |
Perfect
| I | would have crippled |
| you | would have crippled |
| he;she;it | would have crippled |
| we | would have crippled |
| you | would have crippled |
| they | would have crippled |
Imperative
| you | cripple |
| we | Let's cripple |
| you | cripple |
Verbs conjugated like 'cripple'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cripple'
crimple,
dripple,
gripple,
ripple,
becripple,
cribble,
cringle,
crinkle,
crizzle,
crumple,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- cause physical disability
- disable
- seriously damage
- destroy, harm
- to impair the abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury
- disable, disenable, incapacitate, unable
- incapacitate
- exhaust, stifle, mutilate, lame, destroy, mangle, paralyze
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from P.Gmc. *krupilaz, and/or related to O.E. creopan "to creep."
2. From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
Sample Sentences
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The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
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A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system. [2014, Charles L. Mee, Jr, Lorenzo de Medici:]
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My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
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But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages. [1968, Cynthia Propper Seton, A Special and Curious Blessing, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 22:]
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The rules of engagement issued by Commander in Chief Pacific and U.S. Taiwan Defense Command for the air defense of Taiwan were highly restrictive prior to the 1958 crisis. American fighters on Taiwan were only permitted to fire on hostile aircraft entering Taiwan's airspace and were not permitted hot pursuit in international airspace. U.S. combat air patrols were required to remain east of the "Davis Line," which ran approximately down the center of the Taiwan Strait. After the crisis erupted, the U.S. Air Force commander on Taiwan convinced CINCPAC and the JCS that these rules would cripple air defense efforts in the event of concerted Communist air strikes against Taiwan. In September the JCS approved three relaxations to the rules of engagement: first, U.S. fighters were authorized to engage Communist aircraft crossing the Davis Line on an apparent course toward Taiwan or allied forces;[…] [1988 December, Joseph Frederick Bouchard, “Naval Operations in Crises”, in Use of naval force in crises: A theory of stratified crisis interaction., volume II, Stanford University, published 1989, →OCLC, page 453:]
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“I was to see him the halfweek before, to plead for a reduction in the taxes he has placed on us. Impossible, to pay such a fee, and no reason for imposing it. The metalwrights are always willing to do our share, but there need must be a reason for it! He cripples us to build his treasury, and forces honest men to find work elsewhere.” / “The day I meet an honest metalwright, I’ll eat your hat,” a third voice said. [2009, Laura Anne Gilman, Flesh and Fire (The Vineart War; 1), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 392–393:]
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With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be. [2019, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, I Don't Care:]
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But the penny was beginning to drop: even a successful railway could be crippled by its capital costs. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 64:]
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The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.