crippling

crip·ple

 (krĭp′əl)

n.

1.

a. Often Offensive A person who is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs:

b. An animal that is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple.

2. A damaged or defective object or device: "He ... would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute" (Joseph Conrad).

tr.v. crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples

1. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.

2. To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of: a strike that crippled the factory.

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[Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.]

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crip′pler n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

crippling

(ˈkrɪplɪŋ)

adj

damaging or injurious

ˈcripplingly adv

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

crippling - that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" disabling, incapacitating unhealthful - detrimental to good health; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"

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Translations

crippling

[ˈkrɪplɪŋ] ADJ [disease] → que conduce a la parálisis; [blow, defect] → muy grave, muy severo; [taxes, debts] → abrumador, agobiante

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crippling

[ˈkrɪplɪŋ] adj

(physically) [disease, injury] → handicapant(e)

(emotionally) [shyness, fear] → maladif/ive

[taxation, debts] → écrasant(e); [strike] → paralysant(e); [losses] → écrasant(e)
a crippling blow to the government → un coup de massue pour le gouvernement, un vrai coup dur pour le gouvernement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crippling

adj pain → lähmend; guilt, depression → lähmend; taxes, repayments → erdrückend; strikes → alles lähmend attr; a crippling disease → ein Leiden, das einen bewegungsunfähig macht; a crippling blow (lit, fig) → ein schwerer Schlag

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crippling

[ˈkrɪplɪŋ] adj (disease) → che provoca invalidità; (taxes, debts) → esorbitante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995