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Synonyms for cripple
crip·ple
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cripplenoun
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disabled personcripplenoun
Crippled.
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
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disabled personcripplenoun
to damage seriously; to destroy
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
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disabled personcrippleverb
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.
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disabled person
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Princeton's WordNet
crippleverb
someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
cripple, stultifyverb
deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
"This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
cripple, lameverb
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
"The accident has crippled her for life"
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disabled person
a person with special needs.
special needs.
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
cripplenoun
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lame personcrippleverb
crippleverb
Synonyms:
disable, weaken, impair the strength of
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#7559 | disable | |
#13785 | lame | |
#16589 | gimp | |
#25411 | weaken | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26033 | cripple | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#44779 | cramp | |
#58852 | infirm | |
#85178 | paralyze | |
#214279 | paralyse |
How to use cripple in a sentence?
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them
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.
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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.
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.
This is a response to try to cripple the Matt Smith shale industry.
Translations for cripple
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- инвалид, сломявам, сакат, осакатявам, хромBulgarian
- mrzákCzech
- verkrüppeln, KrüppelGerman
- lisiadoSpanish
- rampa, rampauttaa, vammainen, vammauttaa, invalidi, tuhotaFinnish
- estropier, estropiéFrench
- storpioItalian
- 不具にするJapanese
- krøplingNorwegian
- kaleka, okaleczyć, kalekiPolish
- aleijadoPortuguese
- калечить, инвалид, искалечить, калека, инвалидкаRussian
- funktionshindrad, krympling, invalid, funkis, handikappadSwedish
- sakatTurkish
- калікаUkrainian
- 削弱Chinese
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