v. [f. BE- 2 or 5 + CRIPPLE.] To make lame, to cripple.

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1660.  H. More, Myst. Godl., VI. xix. 277. Those who you do bedwarfe and becripple with your poisonous medicines.

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1755.  Bp. Warburton, Lett. (ed. Parr, 1809), 180. Bringing himself down to a lame becrippled world.

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