crippling 1 of 2

noun

Definition of cripplingnext
as in harm

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crippling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of cripple
1
as in incapacitating
to cause severe or permanent injury to the car crash may have crippled two people for life

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2
as in damaging
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of the collision so severely crippled the ship that it had to be towed into port

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3
as in paralyzing
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crippling
  1. harm
  2. paralyzing
  3. mutilation
  4. disabling
  5. undermining
  6. injury
  7. injuring
  8. detriment
Noun
  • The legal team’s influence, the news group reported, was part of the county’s shift to keep children with their families but tragically also placed children in harm’s way.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Obviously, there would be massive irreparable harm there.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of harm
Verb
  • But soon, Salinas found herself under a monthslong investigation, trying to fight off paralyzing depression while processing her grief and caring for her other children.
    Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Yoon said the opposition politicians who control parliament are paralyzing the government and subverting democracy, accusing them of aligning with North Korea.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of paralyzing
Noun
  • This online collection included images of mutilation and tying up women with ropes, two things prosecutors said are consistent with injuries inflicted on Mack and how she was bound, officials said.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Anderson is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson of property other than a building in connection to Robinson’s death.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of mutilation
Verb
  • Included in the bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown is a provision extending the authority of the Homeland Security and Justice departments to continue tracking and disabling unmanned aircraft that are deemed credible threats, pushing the deadline from December 20 to March 14.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The combination of the pain and the pulsating eye was disabling.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of disabling
Verb
  • Such flexibility offers these institutions a way to work with populists without undermining their broader missions.
    Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Understanding the Covert Narcissist Unlike their more obvious counterparts who demand the spotlight, covert narcissists in the workplace present as humble team players while systematically undermining collective morale through subtle manipulation.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of undermining
Noun
  • Three other students and one teacher suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This trade helps the Lakers get a solid point guard, albeit with a serious injury history.
    Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of injury
Verb
  • Meanwhile, a car plowed through a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday night, killing five people and injuring some 200 others.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The anti-immigrant rhetoric has been so acute that an anti-immigration far-right extremist in Germany — ironically himself an immigrant — just attacked a holiday market, killing at least five and injuring hundreds.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of injuring
Noun
  • For now, the view here is that absent the monumental theft that is devaluation there’s no market for someone as odious as Hitler, nor is there acceptance of the genocidal horrors that Hitler foisted on Germany to its everlasting detriment.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There should be limits to profiting off the detriment of others.
    TJ Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of detriment
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