English-German translations for crutch

• Krücke die
  Die Gebärdensprache ist keine Krücke, ist kein Rollstuhl. Sign language is not a crutch or a wheelchair.
  Europa ist jedoch keine Krücke oder Kur für eine Wirtschaftskrise. However, Europe is not a crutch or a cure for an economic crisis.
  Wir sind dagegen, dass der Staat als Krücke für das Privatkapital dient. We are against the state being used as a crutch for private capital.
• Stütze die
• Unterarmgehstütze

Definition of crutch

• A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg
• Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
• A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk
• A knee, or piece of knee timber
• A type of cross formed from two C-shapes joined back to back
• To support on crutches; to prop up
• To move on crutches
• To stir with a crutch (in soap making

Examples

• He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
• Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.

Related words

• inscrutable
• scrutineer
• scrutiny
• scrutinize
• scrutinizing
• scrutinized
• scrutinise
• inscrutability
• unscrutinized