Crippled and Working

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Crippled adjective - Disabled in the feet or legs.

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Working is an antonym for crippled in disabled topic.

Nearby Words: cripple, crippling

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Crippled is an antonym for working.

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

While the fact that she lives with him can be overlooked (he's a medicine cat, she's permanently crippled, so it's akin to her living at a hospital), what can't is how she's the only one who can actually get him to stop working and take care of himself.

Source: Ship Tease / Literature
Also in The Warrior, when Michael who had been crippled for a year and needs a cane to run defeats the army trained priest who wields the not working, but still sharp Fidelacchius, with his old sword and a baseball bat.

Source: Awesome / The Dresden Files

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