The difference between Cripple and Limit
When used as nouns, cripple means a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body, whereas limit means a restriction.
When used as verbs, cripple means to make someone a cripple, whereas limit means to restrict.
When used as adjectives, cripple means crippled, whereas limit means being a fixed limit game.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cripple and Limit
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Cripple as an adjective (now, _, rare, dated):
Crippled.
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Cripple as a noun (sometimes, _, offensive):
a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
Examples:
"He returned from war a cripple."
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Cripple as a noun:
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
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Cripple as a noun (dialect, Southern US, _, except Louisiana):
scrapple.
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Cripple as a noun (among lumbermen):
A rocky shallow in a stream.
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Cripple as a verb:
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
Examples:
"The car bomb crippled five passers-by."
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Cripple as a verb (figuratively):
to damage seriously; to destroy
Examples:
"My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money."
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Cripple as a verb:
to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
Examples:
"The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save."
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Cripple as a verb (informal):
slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered .
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Limit as a noun:
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
Examples:
"There are several existing limits to executive power."
"Two drinks is my limit tonight."
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Limit as a noun (mathematics):
A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Examples:
"The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit."
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Limit as a noun (mathematics):
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Examples:
"Category theory defines a very general concept of limit."
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Limit as a noun (category theory):
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Examples:
"hyponyms terminal object categorical product pullback equalizer"
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Limit as a noun (poker):
Short for fixed limit.
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Limit as a noun:
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
Examples:
"the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country"
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Limit as a noun (obsolete):
The space or thing defined by limits.
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Limit as a noun (obsolete):
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
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Limit as a noun (obsolete):
A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
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Limit as a noun (logic, metaphysics):
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
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Limit as a noun (cycling):
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
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Limit as an adjective (poker):
Being a fixed limit game.
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Limit as a verb (transitive):
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
Examples:
"We need to limit the power of the executive."
"I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight."
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Limit as a verb (mathematics, intransitive):
To have a limit in a particular set.
Examples:
"The sequence limits on the point ''a''."
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Limit as a verb (obsolete):
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Examples:
"a limiting friar"