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- [kruhch]
- /krʌtʃ/
- /krʌtʃ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kruhch]
- /krʌtʃ/
Definitions of crutch word
- countable noun crutch A crutch is a stick whose top fits round or under the user's arm, which someone with an injured foot or leg uses to support their weight when walking. 3
- singular noun crutch If you refer to someone or something as a crutch, you mean that they give you help or support. 3
- countable noun crutch Your crutch is the same as your crotch. 3
- noun crutch a long staff of wood or metal having a rest for the armpit, for supporting the weight of the body 3
- noun crutch something that supports or sustains 3
- noun crutch a forked support for a boom or oar, etc 3
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Origin of crutch
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English crucche, Old English cryce (oblique crycce); cognate with Norwegian krykkja, Danish krykke, German Krücke, Dutch kruk. See crook1
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Parts of speech for Crutch
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
crutch popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
crutch usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for crutch
noun crutch
- cane — Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
- bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- prop — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
verb crutch
- undergird — to strengthen; secure, as by passing a rope or chain under and around: to undergird a top-heavy load.
- shore up — a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
- upbear — to bear up; raise aloft; sustain or support.
Antonyms for crutch
noun crutch
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
Top questions with crutch
- what does crutch mean?
- how to use one crutch?
- how to make a crutch?
- what is a crutch?
- how to make crutch pads?
- how to walk with one crutch?
- a crutch a crutch why call you for a sword?
- using a crutch what side?
- here lies the girl whose only crutch lyrics?
- how to use 1 crutch?
- when using one crutch which side should it be on?
- how to use a crutch?
- when using one crutch which side?
- how to use one crutch after knee surgery?
- which side to use crutch?
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