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Crip·pled a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. “The crippled crone.”
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Crip·ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling ]
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott.
2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay.
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crippled
adj : disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game
leg" [syn: halt, halting, lame, game]