Synonyms for crippled
crip·pled

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1. crippledadjective

   Antonyms:
   uncrippled, noncrippled

2. crippledadjective

   1848 A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on? — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 17.

   Antonyms:
   noncrippled, uncrippled

3. crippledadjective

   1893 The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate. — Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson.

   Antonyms:
   noncrippled, uncrippled

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1. crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, gameadjective

   disabled in the feet or legs

   "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

   Synonyms:
   mettlesome, halt, spirited, lame, halting, gamy, gritty, feeble, gamey, spunky, gimpy, game

   Antonyms:
   fit

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1. crippledadjective

   Synonyms:
   maimed, lame, disabled, deformed, halt

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1. List of paraphrases for "crippled":

   paralyzed, paralysed, hamstrung, mutilated, disabled, handicapped

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How to use crippled in a sentence?

1. F. F. Bosworth:

   It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

2. Barbara Tuchman:

   Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

4. Sarosh Zaiwalla:

   With a nuclear deal imminent, it is clear that Iran is preparing to make up lost ground and re-establish itself as a major supplier, sanctions have crippled Iran's oil production, halving oil exports and severely limiting new development projects. The prospect of them being lifted is creating great excitement within the industry, as foreign trade and investment will allow Iran to make huge efficiencies and drive down the cost of production.

5. Norman Mailer:

   People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.