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Hobble vs Cripple - What's the difference?

hobble | cripple |

As nouns the difference between hobble and cripple

is that hobble is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off 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 hobble and cripple

is that hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles while cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.

As an adjective cripple is

crippled.

hobble

English

Noun

  • (en noun) (usually in plural )
  • Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
  • An unsteady, off-balance step.
  • Synonyms

    * tether (rope)

    Verb

  • To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
  • (Charles Dickens)
  • To walk lame, or unevenly.
  • * Dryden
  • The friar was hobbling the same way too.
  • (figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
  • * Jeffreys
  • The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
  • To perplex; to embarrass.
  • Derived terms

    * hobble skirt * hobbly * unhobble

    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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