Difference between Halting and Crippled

What is the difference between Halting and Crippled?

Halting as an adjective is prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken while Crippled as an adjective is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.

Halting

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To limp; move with a limping gait.

Crippled

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

Example sentence: Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

We hope you now know whether to use Halting or Crippled in your sentence.

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