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Past and present participle of to cripple.

Pertaining to someone with a less than fully functional limb, or has injuries which prevent full mobility.

1848 "A man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?" " Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=110653385&tag=Bronte,+Charlotte,+1816-1855.:+Jane+Eyre:+an+autobiography,+Vol.+II,+1848&query=crippled&id=BroJaII Chapter 17.

Pertaining to any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.

1893 The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate. " Mark Twain, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=637195715&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+The+Tragedy+of+Pudd'nhead+Wilson,+1893&query=crippled&id=Twa2Pud? Pudd'nhead Wilson.

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