cripple

英 ['krɪp(ə)l] 美['krɪpl]

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复数: cripples;第三人称单数: cripples;过去式: crippled;过去分词: crippled;现在分词: crippling;形容词: crippling;

1. The etymological sense of cripple appears to be 'someone who creeps along'.
2. creep + -le => cripple.

cripple 使残废

词源同creep.

cripple: cripple: [OE] The etymological sense of cripple appears to be ‘someone who creeps along’, for it probably goes back ultimately to the same Indo- European base, *greub-, as creep. The word is widespread in the Germanic languages: German has kruppel, Dutch kreupel, and Norwegian krypel.
=> creep
cripple (n.): Old English crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (cognates: Old Frisian kreppel, Middle Dutch cropel, German krüppel, Old Norse kryppill). Possibly also related to Old English creopan "to creep" (creopere, literally "creeper," was another Old English word for "crippled person").
cripple (v.): mid-13c., "to move slowly," from cripple (n.). Meaning "make a cripple of, lame" is from early 14c. Related: Crippled; crippling.

1. The national health system saved him from becoming a cripple.: 在国民医疗保健系统的救助下，他免于致残。

2. A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country's economy.: 全面切断物品供应会使该国经济陷入瘫痪。