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Definitions for Crippling

[1] Offensive . a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive . a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
[2] anything that is impaired or flawed.
[3] a wounded animal, especially one shot by a hunter.
[4] Carpentry . any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a windowsill.
[5] Delaware Valley . a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.
[6] to make a cripple of; lame.
[7] to disable; impair; weaken.
[8] Carpentry . jack1(def 29) .
[9] damaging or injurious
[10] offensive a person who is lame
[11] offensive a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way a mental cripple
[12] US dialect a dense thicket, usually in marshy land
[13] (tr) to make a cripple of; disable

Words related to Crippling

crippleparalyze, immobilize, sap, injure, debilitate, incapacitate, hurt, hamstring, stifle, undermine, weaken, halt, ruin, damage, impair, destroy, prostrate, lame, blunt, attenuate

Words nearby Crippling

cripplecrios, criosphinx, crip, cripes, crippen, cripple, cripple creek, crippling, cripps, crise, criseyde

Origin of Crippling

ebefore 950; Middle English cripel, Old English crypel; akin to creep

Other words from Crippling

crip·pler , noun
crip·pling·ly , adverb
un·crip·pled , adjective

Word origin for Crippling

eOld English crypel; related to crēopan to creep , Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpel

Synonyms for Crippling

debilitate, hamstring, hurt, immobilize, incapacitate, injure, paralyze, sap, stifle, undermine, weaken, attenuate, blunt, disarm, dismember, enfeeble, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, palsy, prostrate, sideline, dislimb, unstrengthen