Translation for 'cripple' from English to Italian

cripple [female]

zoppa {f} [coll.]

cripple [male]

zoppo {m} [coll.]

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cripple [person]

storpio {m}

• Mexico is vulnerable to drought, which can cripple agriculture.
• Giovanni Battista Discepoli (1590–1660), also called "Lo Zoppo di Lugano" from his being a cripple, was a Swiss-Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Milan.
• Raspberry ripple is Cockney rhyming slang for nipple and cripple.
• During her childhood on one particular occasion, her brother Gabriele was involved in a brawl with a boy who mockingly called Porro a cripple, and while the mothers of both boys separated them both, she said: "He called me 'the cripple' – what is wrong with that?
• In a World War III scenario, the captain must prevent the Soviet fleet in the Norwegian Sea from travelling through the GIUK gap, sinking enough ships and subs to seriously cripple their forces.

• Traditionally, a stud which was less than full length was sometimes referred to as a cripple.
• In "Teito Monogatari", Katō reveals his true intentions to destroy Tokyo through any means possible in order to cripple the Japanese Empire.
• Analogous to the Russell Tribunal by Amnesty International, the "cripple tribunal" denounced human rights violations of disabled people.
• In older homes the most significant weaknesses are the connection from the wood-framed walls to the foundation and the relatively weak "cripple-walls."
• Because of these new usages of the terms cripple and crip, moving from descriptive to derogatory, cripple and crip are defined as dated and offensive terms.

• It was generally assumed at the time that the indemnity would cripple France for thirty or fifty years.
• He became a cripple due to his wounds, which healed quickly but were never operated on, earning him the moniker “El Cojo” from Spanish and American prisoners in Vigan.
• Opponents stated that it violated the First Amendment, would cripple the Internet, and would threaten whistle-blowing and other free speech actions.
• The winner of the fourth season was breaker cripple Plamen Lubenov.
• High taxes on religious buildings and clergy were meant to cripple the religious bodies financially.

• Commentators interpret the "wu" as a female shaman and the "wang" as a male cripple.
• The "cripple tribunal" in Dortmund on 13 December 1981 was one of the main protest actions of the autonomous German disability movement (in confrontation with the established disability assistance) against human rights abuses in nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, as well as against deficiencies of local public transport.
• However, as of 2022 critics say rising housing costs are continuing to cripple families and systemic changes are needed to ensure any gains are lasting.