cripple

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n. 跛者, 残废 vt. 使跛, 使成残废, 削弱 a. 跛的, 残废的

发音

其它 /ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/
US /ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/

词形变化

cripples 复数 cripples crippled cripples 三单 crippling crippling 现在分词 crippled 过去式 crippled 过去分词

别名

creeple

教材释义与例句

名词

跛子；残废

动词

削弱；使跛；使残废

形容词

跛的；残废的

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

    残废

    瘸子

    跛子

    废人

    可数 冒犯 不可数

    He returned from war a cripple.

  2. 2.

    A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.

    可数 比喻 不可数 引申义
  3. 3.

    A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    Scrapple.

    方言 不可数 可数
  5. 5.

    A rocky shallow in a stream.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.

    致残

    残害

    The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

  2. 2.

    To damage seriously; to destroy.

    比喻

    My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

  3. 3.

    To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

    The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

  5. 5.

    To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

    俚语 游戏
adj.
  1. 1.

    Crippled.

    古体 过时

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

someone person somebody soul individual mortal

下位词 3

hunchback humpback crookback
动词

同义词 2

lame stultify

上位词 2

weaken maim

下位词 1

hamstring

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

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