n. & v.
n. a person who is permanently lame.
v.tr. 1 make a cripple of; lame. 2 disable, impair. 3 weaken or damage (an institution, enterprise, etc.) seriously (crippled by the loss of funding). crippledom n. cripplehood n. crippler n.
[ OE crypel, rel. to CREEP ]