Synonyms for crippling
crip·pling

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1. crippling, disabling, incapacitatingadjective

   that cripples or disables or incapacitates

   "a crippling injury"

   Synonyms:
   disabling, incapacitating, disqualifying

   Antonyms:
   healthful

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1. 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. List of paraphrases for "crippling":

   paralysing, incapacitating, devastating, overwhelming, ruinous, disabling, debilitating

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1. Albert Einstein:

   The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

2. Mehmet Oz:

   I’m a doctor, and I get if he is too sick to participate because of his crippling stroke, but he does have to come forward and transparently explain to Pennsylvania what is going on.

3. Tom Toomey:

   Over the top spending is definitely a big thing we need to fix, but that’s not the only thing, we need to get rid of regulations that are crippling small business. We need to lower taxes.

4. Donald Trump:

   These are crippling loopholes that cause family separation, which we don't want.

5. The United:

   Every day we are proving we can protect our workers, create new jobs and safeguard the environment without imposing crippling mandates and one-sided international agreements on our citizens.