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crutching

crutching

7.7
Walking with the help of crutches because of an injury
  • noun
  • /ˈkrʌtʃɪŋ/
translation icon : uso de muletas
  • She practiced walking with crutches after her surgery to regain her strength.

I want to walk without, you know, crutches, crutches and get my balance back.

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Examples

  • So now I'm on crutches and I'm trying to fix my broken foot.

    Bobbi Althoff

  • And I'm going to share with you in the next few episodes the process that I went through to get off the crutches and back on the court, he told the guy.

    etthehiphoppreacher

  • I want to walk without, you know, crutches, crutches and get my balance back.

    Club Shay Shay

  • I want to walk without, you know, crutches, crutches and get my balance back.

    Club Shay Shay

  • Yeah, I'm allowed to bed my knee and I also don't need the crutches anymore, so I am much much better than last time.

  • So it was like the in conjunction with healing myself, you know, on crutches, I was able to sit still and work on what I needed to work on internally.

    Rich Roll

  • After injuring my ankle, I needed to use crutches to help me walk safely.

  • The athlete relied on crutches during his recovery from a leg injury.

Antonyms

unaided
3 4.9

Done without help from other people

How Assisted

baby-walker
1 3.2
crutching
7.7
cane
80 1.0

Surface Forms

crutching singular
crutchings plural

Morphology

crutching = crutch (transparent) = crutch + ing

Direct gerund/nominalization of the verb 'to crutch' meaning 'to move with the aid of crutches', so the meaning follows standard English -ing formation.

Etymology

Crutching comes from the noun crutch, a tool that helps a person walk by giving support to the arms and taking weight off an injured leg, and that word is related to Latin crux 'cross' for the shape of early crutches. So crutching simply means moving with the help of a crutch.