cripple

  1. Adjective.  Crippled.
  2. Noun.  (context, sometimes) a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
  3. Noun.  a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  4. Noun.  (dialect, US) scrapple.
  5. Verb.  to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.
  6. Verb.  (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy.
  7. Verb.  to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

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