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Demolish vs Cripple - What's the difference?

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Demolish is a related term of cripple.


In figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between demolish and cripple

is that demolish is (figuratively) to utterly defeat while cripple is (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy.

As verbs the difference between demolish and cripple

is that demolish is to destroy; to destruct while cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.

As an adjective cripple is

crippled.

As a noun cripple is

a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

demolish

English

Verb

(es)
  • To destroy; to destruct.
    • They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.
  • (figuratively) To utterly defeat.
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    cripple

    English

    (wikipedia cripple)

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Crippled.
  • * 1599 — , iv 1
    • And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
    • He returned from war a cripple .
  • * Dryden
    • I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  • scrapple.

    • Synonyms

    * disabled person

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple

    Verb

    (crippl)
  • to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
    • The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
  • (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
    • My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
  • to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
    • The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

    See also

    * disfigurement * lame * paralysis * disability

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