Crippled vs Compromised - What's the difference?
crippled | compromised |
Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
(cripple)
As adjectives the difference between crippled and compromised
is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility while compromised is having been compromised.As verbs the difference between crippled and compromised
is that crippled is (cripple) while compromised is (compromise).crippled
English
Adjective
(head)- 1848' ''"A '''crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"'' — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre ,
Chapter 17.
- 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.