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Cripple vs Rot - What's the difference?

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Cripple is a related term of rot.


As nouns the difference between cripple and rot

is that cripple is a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body while rot is meat roasted on a spit.

As an adjective cripple

is crippled.

As a verb cripple

is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.

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

    *

    rot

    English

    Verb

    (rott)
  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
  • To decline in function or utility.
  • To deteriorate in any way.
    • I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
  • * Macaulay
    • Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
  • * Thackeray
    • Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
    • to rot vegetable fiber
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

    • Derived terms

    * potter's rot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  • * Milton
    • His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
  • Verbal nonsense.

    • Synonyms

    * (nonsense) See also

    Anagrams

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