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cripples

cripples is the plural of cripple.

Meaning of cripple

Noun

cripple (countable and uncountable, plural cripples)

  1. (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
    • He returned from war a cripple.
    Synonyms:
    disabled
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
    • Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.1906, Religious Telescope, volume 72, page 8
  3. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  4. (dialectal, uncountable, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
  5. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

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Questions about cripples

What is cripples the plural of?
Cripples is the plural of cripple.

Words near cripples in the dictionary

  1. cripplements
  2. crippleness
  3. cripplepunk
  4. crippler
  5. cripplers
  6. cripples
  7. cripplesome
  8. crippleware
  9. crippling
  10. cripplingly
  11. cripplings

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