Disabled vs Cripple - What's the difference?
disabled | cripple |
Made incapable of use or action.
Having a disability, especially physical.
(legal) Legally disqualified.
One who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled , but sometimes also singular).
(disable)
Crippled.
* 1599 — , iv 1
a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
* Dryden
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
scrapple.
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
As adjectives the difference between disabled and cripple
is that disabled is made incapable of use or action while cripple is crippled.As nouns the difference between disabled and cripple
is that disabled is one who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled , but sometimes also singular) while cripple is a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.As verbs the difference between disabled and cripple
is that disabled is (disable) while cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.disabled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* incapacitated * invalidAntonyms
* enabledNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)cripple
English
(wikipedia cripple)Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Adjective
(en adjective)- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
Noun
(en noun)- He returned from war a cripple .
- I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Synonyms
* disabled personDerived terms
* emotional crippleVerb
(crippl)- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
