Usually means: Impair the function of; disable.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word cripple:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cripple: Merriam-Webster
  2. cripple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cripple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cripple: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cripple: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cripple, cripple: Wordnik
  7. cripple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cripple: Wiktionary
  9. cripple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cripple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cripple: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cripple: Dictionary.com
  13. cripple: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cripple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cripple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cripple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cripple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cripple: Rhymezone
  19. Cripple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cripple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cripple: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cripple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cripple: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Cripple: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. cripple: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cripple: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cripple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cripple: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Cripple: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. cripple: Medical dictionary
  4. Cripple: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cripple, cripple, cripple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cripple: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Cripple: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Cripple: Poker Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cripple: Construction Glossary

(Note: See crippled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now rare, dated) crippled
noun:  (sometimes offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
noun:  A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
noun:  (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
noun:  (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
verb:  To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
verb:  (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
verb:  (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
verb:  To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
verb:  (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

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