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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crippling
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 prime minister would be a crippling liability in the White House.
▪ Alzheimer's disease is one of the most crippling and distressing diseases of the elderly.
▪ Fines were also imposed and crippling fines were threatened.
▪ In one year under Labour, borrowing reached a crippling 9 percent. - the equivalent of £55 billion today.
▪ Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection.
▪ These protests were added to a series of crippling miners' strikes which had begun in early March.
▪ This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine.
▪ Within large-scale industry, the crippling specialisation of the individual machine-minders is one aspect of the division of labour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crippling

Crippling \Crip"pling\ (-pl?ng), n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Crippling

Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]

  1. 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.

  2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

    More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.
    --Palfrey.

    An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.
    --Macaulay.

Wiktionary
crippling

  1. 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

  2. (present participle of cripple English)

WordNet
crippling

adj. that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: disabling, incapacitating]

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.