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Crippled vs Crooked - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between crippled and crooked

is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility while crooked is not straight; having one or more bends or angles.

As verbs the difference between crippled and crooked

is that crippled is past tense of cripple while crooked is past tense of crook.

crippled

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
    • 1848' ''"A '''crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"'' — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 17.
  • Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
    • 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.

    Antonyms

    * noncrippled * uncrippled

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cripple)

    • crooked

    English

    Etymology 1

    From crook, equivalent to .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crook)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) croked, crokid, past participle of . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
    • We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill.
  • Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
    • That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?
  • (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
    • He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.