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Afflict vs Cripple - What's the difference?

afflict | cripple |

As verbs the difference between afflict and cripple

is that afflict is to cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress while cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.

As an adjective cripple is

crippled.

As a noun cripple is

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

afflict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
  • * 1611 , 1:11–12:
    • Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict' them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they ' afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  • * 1611 , 23:27:
    • Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
  • (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
  • * Milton
    • reassembling our afflicted powers
  • (obsolete) To make low or humble.
    • (Spenser)
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.

    cripple

    English

    (wikipedia cripple)

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Crippled.
  • * 1599 — , iv 1
    • And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
    • He returned from war a cripple .
  • * Dryden
    • I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  • scrapple.

    • Synonyms

    * disabled person

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple

    Verb

    (crippl)
  • to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
    • The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
  • (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
    • My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
  • 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.

    See also

    * disfigurement * lame * paralysis * disability

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