What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Crippled vs Impairment - What's the difference?

crippled | impairment |

As an adjective crippled

is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.

As a verb crippled

is (cripple).

As a noun impairment is

the result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.

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)

    • impairment

    English

    Alternative forms

    * empairment (rare)

    Noun

    (wikipedia impairment) (en noun)
  • The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.
  • (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.