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Cripple vs Frustrate - What's the difference?

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Cripple is a related term of frustrate.


As adjectives the difference between cripple and frustrate

is that cripple is crippled while frustrate is vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

As verbs the difference between cripple and frustrate

is that cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability while frustrate is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.

As a noun cripple

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

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

    Anagrams

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    frustrate

    English

    Verb

    (frustrat)
  • To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
  • It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
  • To hinder or thwart.
  • My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
  • To cause stress or panic
  • This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory
  • * Shakespeare
  • Our frustrate search.