n :  a lame or partly disabled individual - sometimes taken to be offensive
adj :  being a cripple  :  LAME
, vt, crip*pled  crip*pling   :  to deprive of the use of a limb and esp. a leg <crippled by arthritis>  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:   carpal  car·pa·le  gripp·al 
 
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