The difference between Cripple and Restrict
When used as verbs, cripple means to make someone a cripple, whereas restrict means to restrain within boundaries.
When used as adjectives, cripple means crippled, whereas restrict means restricted.
Cripple is also noun with the meaning: a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cripple and Restrict
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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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Restrict as a verb:
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
Examples:
"After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt."
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Restrict as a verb (specifically, mathematics):
To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
Examples:
"If we restrict sine to <math>[-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2]</math>, we can define its inverse."
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Restrict as an adjective (obsolete):
Restricted.