Synonyms for cripple
crip·ple

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1. cripplenoun

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

2. cripplenoun

   Crippled.

   The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

3. cripplenoun

   to damage seriously; to destroy

   My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

4. crippleverb

   to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

   The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

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1. cripple

   Synonyms:
   weaken, impair, curtail, cramp, disable

   Antonyms:
   strengthen, renovate, augment, liberate, free, ease, enlarge, expedite

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1. crippleverb

   someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

2. cripple, stultifyverb

   deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

   "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

   Synonyms:
   stultify, lame

3. cripple, lameverb

   deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

   "The accident has crippled her for life"

   Synonyms:
   stultify, lame

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1. disabled person

   a person with special needs.

   special needs.

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

2. nerf

   the term in gaming ones, as slang, to make it weaker or worse

   there is a nerf to the skills in-game.

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cripplenoun

   Synonyms:
   lame person

2. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   lame, make lame

3. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   disable, weaken, impair the strength of

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1. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   maim, lame, disable, hough, hamstring

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1. List of paraphrases for "cripple":

   paralyse, infirm, paralyze, gimp

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How to use cripple in a sentence?

1. Philip Hammond:

   Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them

2. Adam Schiff of California:

   This is just the president ignoring the rule of law, ignoring decades of precedent and policy, this is exactly what we feared about Whitaker's appointment, that Matt Whitaker was picked not because Matt Whitaker was qualified for the job -- Matt Whitaker really isn't -- but Matt Whitaker was picked because Matt Whitaker was auditioning on TV talking down the Mueller investigation, talking about Matt Whitaker could -- how we could privately cripple the Mueller investigation.

3. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images:

   These tertiary situations that Durham is talking about related to me, I think it is exactly what I mentioned — it is part of showing this picture to the American public of exactly how corrupt the FBI was under James Comey, the FBI went to any extent possible to trample on people’s rights in order to frame Trump and his campaign and then eventually cripple his presidency, and that’s really what this was all about, and what I think Durham is going to showcase in this trial.

4. Mike Pence:

   Turkey risks expulsion from the joint F-35 program, which will harm not just Turkey's defense capacity, but it may cripple many of the Turkish component manufacturers that supply that program, they're part of the supply chain, it's not a small economic decision for them in that regard.

5. Matt Smith:

   This is a response to try to cripple the Matt Smith shale industry.