Wither vs Cripple - What's the difference?
wither | cripple | Related terms |
To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
To cause to shrivel or dry up.
* Bible, Matthew xii. 10
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
* Byron
* Cowper
To become helpless due to emotion.
To make helpless due to emotion.
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.
Wither is a related term of cripple.
As verbs the difference between wither and cripple
is that wither is (obsolete) to go against, resist; oppose or wither can be to shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water while cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.As an adverb wither
is (obsolete|or|chiefly in compounds) against, in opposition to.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.wither
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .Verb
(en verb)- There was a man which had his hand withered .
- This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered .
- now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave
- names that must not wither
- States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with whither .Anagrams
* whiter, writhecripple
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.