cripple

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Often Offensive A person who is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs.
• noun An animal that is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs.
• noun A damaged or defective object or device.
• transitive verb To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
• transitive verb To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A kind of temporary staging used by window-cleaners.
• noun In railroading, a freight-car or other car which has been injured or damaged in its running gear or is for any other reason unfit for use. A ear condemned by a car-inspector as a cripple must be cut out of its train and sent to the cripple-track. See drill-yard.
• noun One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who is partially or wholly deprived of the use of one or more of his limbs; a lame person: also applied to animals.
• noun A dense thicket in swampy or low land; a patch of low timber-growth.
• noun A rocky shallow in a stream: so called by lumbermen.
• Lame; decrepit.
• To walk haltingly, like a cripple.
• To make (one) a cripple; partly disable by injuring a limb or limbs; deprive of the free use of a limb or limbs, especially of a leg or foot; lame.
• To disable in part; impair the power or efficiency of; weaken by impairment: as, the fleet was crippled in the engagement; to cripple one's resources by bad debts.
• Synonyms Maim, Disfigure. etc. See mutilate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
• transitive verb To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources.
• noun Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.
• noun A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.
• adjective rare Lame; halting.
• noun One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Crippled.
• noun a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
• noun a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
• noun dialect scrapple.
• verb to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
• verb figuratively to damage seriously; to destroy
• verb to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
• noun someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
• verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg