cripple

• vt.弱らせる；不自由にする；不具にする
• n. 跛行する
• adj.足が不自由な

語源的にはcreepと同じ。

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 .

国民医療保健システムの救助の下で、彼は障害を免れた。

2.A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country 's economy.

物品供給を全面的に遮断すると、同国経済は麻痺する。

3.Let 's try to cripple their communications.

通信機器を破壊してみましょう。

4.It is wrong to make fun of a cripple .

障害者を笑うのはよくない.

5.It 's cruel to make fun of a cripple .

びっこを笑うのは残忍だ。