cripple

1. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

   He returned from war a cripple.

2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3. Scrapple.
4. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

   The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

2. To damage seriously; to destroy

   My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

3. To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

   The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

4. To nerf something which is overpowered

adjective

Crippled.