▸ 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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