Synonyms for cripple
crip·ple

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1. cripplenoun

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

2. cripplenoun

   Crippled.

   The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

3. cripplenoun

   to damage seriously; to destroy

   My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

4. crippleverb

   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.

   Synonyms:
   disabled person

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1. cripple

   Synonyms:
   weaken, impair, curtail, cramp, disable

   Antonyms:
   strengthen, renovate, augment, liberate, free, ease, enlarge, expedite

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1. crippleverb

   someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

2. cripple, stultifyverb

   deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

   "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

   Synonyms:
   stultify, lame

3. cripple, lameverb

   deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

   "The accident has crippled her for life"

   Synonyms:
   stultify, lame

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1. disabled person

   a person with special needs.

   special needs.

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

2. 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  

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1. cripplenoun

   Synonyms:
   lame person

2. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   lame, make lame

3. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   disable, weaken, impair the strength of

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1. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   maim, lame, disable, hough, hamstring

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1. List of paraphrases for "cripple":

   paralyse, infirm, paralyze, gimp

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How to use cripple in a sentence?

1. Hal Singer:

   There might be something in the Activision portfolio, that by denying it to a rival gaming platform, Microsoft could cripple that rival platform.

2. Lisa McClain:

   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.

3. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

4. Claudio Galimberti:

   As long as it manages to divert most of its oil exports from Europe to Asia, the impact could be — relatively speaking — not massive. Otherwise, it would completely cripple the Russian economy, as it's heavily dependent on oil exports.

5. Matt Smith:

   This is a response to try to cripple the Matt Smith shale industry.