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crippling
Word definitions for crippling in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
That cripples n. 1 State of being crippled; lameness. 2 Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. v (present participle of cripple English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).] To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. To deprive of strength, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: disabling , incapacitating ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a damaging/crippling strike (= having a bad effect on an industry ) ▪ The company now faces the prospect of a crippling strike. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A leadership style that has made her a remarkably effective ...
Usage examples of crippling.
Most deaths or cripplings in training were from hunting accidents: a neck or head broken by a low branch, a horse failing to clear a blowdown, even a jaguar brought to bay and charging.
Too, sometimes men who desire to own slaves but are themselves too weak to do so, or, because of rigidities of cripplings, are psychologically incapable of doing so, will, out of envy, jealousy and spite, fight to free them, in order to deny others the pleasures which they, because of their handicaps and inhibitions, cannot grant to themselves.