Crippled vs Mutilated - What's the difference?
crippled | mutilated | Related terms |
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)
Crippled is a related term of mutilated.
As adjectives the difference between crippled and mutilated
is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility while mutilated is =.As verbs the difference between crippled and mutilated
is that crippled is (cripple) while mutilated is (mutilate).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.
