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Cripple vs Mutilate - What's the difference?

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Cripple is a related term of mutilate.


In figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between cripple and mutilate

is that cripple is (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy while mutilate is (figuratively) to render imperfect or defective.

As adjectives the difference between cripple and mutilate

is that cripple is crippled while mutilate is (obsolete) deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

As verbs the difference between cripple and mutilate

is that cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability while mutilate is to physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.

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

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

    Anagrams

    *

    mutilate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
  • To destroy beyond recognition.
  • (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.

    • Synonyms

    * maim * mangle

    Derived terms

    * mutilation * mutilative * mutilator

    See also

    * amputate, amputation * castrate, castration * circumcise, circumcision

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation)

    Anagrams

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