verb
- Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless.
- usage: "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
- Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg.
- usage: "The accident has crippled her for life"
adjective
- That cripples or disables or incapacitates.
- usage: "a crippling injury"
- synonyms: disabling, incapacitating
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