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Crippled vs Spavined - What's the difference?

crippled | spavined |

Crippled is a see also of spavined.


As adjectives the difference between crippled and spavined

is that crippled is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility while spavined is having spavin (said of a horse).

As a verb crippled

is (cripple).

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)

    • spavined

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having spavin (said of a horse).
  • Old, worn out, obsolete (said figuratively of a person).
    • I’m a spavined old warrior, and I don't have much time left in this world, but I still have a few tricks to teach these whippersnappers.

    See also

    *crippled *lame