Crippled vs Amputated - What's the difference?
crippled | amputated |
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 verbs the difference between crippled and amputated
is that crippled is past tense of cripple while amputated is past tense of amputate.As an adjective crippled
is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.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.
