crippled

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crippled

1. (usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
   • 1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre‎:

     A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?

2. (usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
   • 1893, Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson.‎:

     The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.

• noncrippled
• uncrippled

crippled

1. simple past tense and past participle of cripple