Handcap vs Cripple - What's the difference?
handcap | cripple |
Handcap has no English definition.
Crippled.
* 1599 — , iv 1
a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
* Dryden
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
scrapple.
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
Handcap is likely misspelled.
Handcap has no English definition.
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.As a verb cripple is
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.handcap
Not English
Handcap has no English definition. It may be misspelled.cripple
English
(wikipedia cripple)Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Adjective
(en adjective)- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
Noun
(en noun)- He returned from war a cripple .
- I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Synonyms
* disabled personDerived terms
* emotional crippleVerb
(crippl)- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.