Difference between Lame and Cripple

What is the difference between Lame and Cripple?

Lame as an adjective is unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs while Cripple as an adjective is crippled.

Lame

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. unconvincing or unbelievable failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause a person or animal to become lame

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a lamina a set of joined, overlapping metal plates

Example sentence: He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

Cripple

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disabilityto damage seriously; to destroyto release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.scrapple.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Crippled.

Example sentence: Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

We hope you now know whether to use Lame or Cripple in your sentence.

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