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cripple

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Adjective

  1. crippled

Noun

  1. A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
  2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  3. Scrapple.
  4. A rocky shallow in a stream.

Verb

  1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
  2. To damage seriously; to destroy.
  3. To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
  4. To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
  5. To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

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