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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?
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.
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience, he’s never run a federal agency, the last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency.
As long as it manages to divert most of its oil exports from Europe to Asia, the impact could be — relatively speaking — not massive. Otherwise, it would completely cripple the Russian economy, as it's heavily dependent on oil exports.
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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.
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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