The difference between Cripple and Nerf
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 nerf means the weakening or worsening of a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.
When used as verbs, cripple means to make someone a cripple, whereas nerf means to bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.
Cripple is also adjective with the meaning: crippled.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cripple and Nerf
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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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Nerf as a verb (motor racing):
To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.
Examples:
"A racer will often nerf another as a psychological tactic."
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Nerf as a verb (slang, video games, especially of developers rather than players):
To cripple or weaken (a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.).
Examples:
"The lightning spell was originally pretty powerful, but in the sequel they nerfed it so it became completely useless."
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Nerf as a noun (slang, video games):
The weakening or worsening of a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.