CRUTCH


Meaning of CRUTCH in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

use

Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch .

He can be compulsive, full of tics that also are used as crutches .

Without another word she turned and made her way upstairs, using the crutch only as an added safety precaution.

I knew some patients who learned to take a few struggling steps using braces and crutches and never got any further.

Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age, some of them using crutches .

Anything longer-and unless part of it is very familiar to us already we have to use crutches .

walk

His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder.

They offered little hope that he would ever walk without crutches .

He talked and laughed a lot, and practised walking with his crutch .

Now he walks on crutches and holds a responsible position with a magazine in New York.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Alcoholics use drinking as a crutch .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He came down to Highbury on crutches, so grave was the extent of his injury.

He put his hand down to the crutch of the camiknickers and he fumbled with the little buttons.

Hospital officials cleaned and bandaged his wound and sent him home with a pair of crutches, Ross said.

It took three years of rehabilitation, but Meidl once again walked without the aid of crutches.

Some came in wheelchairs or on crutches.

Volunteers, sometimes wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of crutches, raised money in numerous and often ingenious ways.

With a shout, Silver threw his crutch through the air.

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