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- Dictionarycrippling/ˈkrɪplɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing a person to become unable to walk or move properly: "a crippling disease"
- 2. causing a severe and almost insuperable problem: "interest rates rose to a crippling 13 per cent"
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uk / ˈkrɪp. ə l.ɪŋ / us / ˈkrɪp. ə l.ɪŋ / Add to word list. causing serious injuries or harm: A crippling attack of malaria kept him in bed for months. The bomb attack dealt a crippling blow to tourism in the country. crippling debts. See. cripple. Fewer examples. The novel opens during a crippling drought.
Crippling definition: damaging or injurious. See examples of CRIPPLING used in a sentence.
If you say that an action, policy, or situation has a crippling effect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect. The high cost of borrowing has a crippling effect on many small firms.
Definition of crippling adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
An animal that is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple. 2. A damaged or defective object or device: "He ... would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute" (Joseph Conrad). tr.v. crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples. 1. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs. 2.
1. sometimes offensive : to deprive of the use of a limb and especially a leg. 2. : to deprive of capability for service or of strength, efficiency, or wholeness. an economy crippled by inflation. crippler. ˈkri-p (ə-)lər. noun.
to prevent software or a device from working normally, usually intentionally in order to make the user pay for more software, for another device, etc.: The company released software that crippled unlocked phones, preventing them from being used on other carriers ' networks.
