Synonyms of cripple
87 similar words
Another word for cripple is disabled. Other synonyms of cripple are disable, disenable, invalid, incapacitate and unable.
Synonyms and similar words for cripple
nounA person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation...
- disabledOne who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular).
verbTo make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
- disable
- disenableTo disable (render unable).
- invalid
- incapacitate
- unableTo render unable; to disable.
verbTo damage seriously; to destroy.
- destroy
- annihilate
- aerosolize
- atomize
- bewreckTo wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
- blot out
- blotto
- dash
- decompose
- demolish
- desolate
- devastate
- diffuse
- disintegrate
- disperse
- dissolve
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fuck vulgar
- harry
- jazz
- lay wasteTo completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
- level
- liquidate
- nuke
- obliterate
- overturn
- pull down
- pulverizeAmerican and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
- raze
- ravage
- remove
- ruin
- ruinate
- stamp out
- total
- subvert
- unbreed figuratively
- unexist
- unmakeTo destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.
- uproot
- waste
- wipe out
- wipe off
- wreck
- abuse
- bewoundTo wound all over; cover or afflict with wounds.
- damage
- do damage to
- do for UK
- do illTo harm, to injure.
- do violence toTo gravely harm.
- harmTo damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
- harrow
- hurt
- injure
- maul
- put someone in hospital UKTo injure (someone) to the point that they need serious medical attention.
- scaith ScotlandTo injure; to wound.
- scathe
- wet slang
- wound
- benothing obsolete, rareTo reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- fordo obsolete
- overthrow rare
- race obsolete
- ravel obsolete
- annoy archaic
- damnify obsolete
- dere UK, archaic
- forwork archaic
- grieve archaic
- mayhem archaic
- misdo archaic
- vulnerate archaicTo wound, cause to become vulnerable.
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.
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Questions about synonyms of cripple
- What is another word for cripple?
- Cripple has 87 synonyms on Word.ws, such as disabled, disable, disenable, invalid, incapacitate, unable, destroy and annihilate.
- What does cripple mean?
- Cripple means crippled.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cripple (page history and authors) and the entries of the words listed. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws grouped the synonyms and antonyms by meaning and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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