Incapacitate vs Cripple - What's the difference?
incapacitate | cripple |
to make incapable (of doing something)
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 verbs the difference between incapacitate and cripple
is that incapacitate is to make incapable (of doing something) 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.incapacitate
English
Verb
(incapacitat)- The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the 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.