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Attenuated vs Crippled - What's the difference?

attenuated | crippled |

As verbs the difference between attenuated and crippled

is that attenuated is (attenuate) while crippled is (cripple).

As adjectives the difference between attenuated and crippled

is that attenuated is made, or become weak; subject to attenuation while crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.

attenuated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (attenuate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation
  • *
  • (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)

    • crippled

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
    • 1848' ''"A '''crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"'' — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 17.
  • Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
    • 1893' ''The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a '''crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.'' — Mark Twain, '' Pudd'nhead Wilson.

    Antonyms

    * noncrippled * uncrippled

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cripple)