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Crippled vs Halting - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between crippled and halting

is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility while halting is prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

As verbs the difference between crippled and halting

is that crippled is past tense of cripple while halting is present participle of lang=en.

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)

    • halting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken
    • his halting speech
    her halting steps

    Verb

    (head)

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