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. 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.

3. Gregory McGee:

   We were crippled, essentially, for a whole day, all of our incident reports, all of our crime reports, that's all digitized.

4. James Comer:

   President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs, the federal government exists to serve the American people and these substantial delays for basic services are unacceptable.

5. Yuval Ben-Itzhak:

   There were several waves of these samples, usually four times per year. This crippled-sample generation lasted for about four years. The last wave was received at the beginning of the year 2013.