Past tense of cripple
regular verb
The past tense of cripple is crippled. The past participle is also crippled.
Forms of cripple
| Base form (V1) | cripple /ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | crippled /ˈkɹɪpəld/ |
| Past participle (V3) | crippled /ˈkɹɪpəld/ |
| Present participle | crippling |
| Third person singular | cripples |
Crippled in a sentence
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- The insurgents’ shadow government is being crippled by the federal military strikes.From the entry shadow
- As the crippled jet spiralled down, the pilot pulled the escape handle, ejecting first his rear-seater, then himself.From the entry eject
- She came abeam the crippled ship.From the entry abeam
Meaning of cripple
- adjective Crippled.
- noun A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- noun A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
Questions about the past tense of cripple
- What is the past tense of cripple?
- The past tense of cripple is crippled.
- What is the past participle of cripple?
- The past participle of cripple is crippled.
- Is cripple a regular or irregular verb?
- Cripple is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cripple (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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