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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?
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.
There might be something in the Activision portfolio, that by denying it to a rival gaming platform, Microsoft could cripple that rival platform.
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them
That’s money the Russians are using to fight the war in Ukraine, that could stop, and we could cripple them today, but Biden is too worried about placating to the progressives. I think we should placate to the Americans and the people of Ukraine.
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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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