Antonyms for cripplecrip·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

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

   Synonyms:
   weaken, impair, curtail, cramp, disable

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1. • Weaken

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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. crippleverb

   Synonyms:
   maim, lame, disable, hough, hamstring

How to use cripple in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Adam Schiff of California:

   This is just the president ignoring the rule of law, ignoring decades of precedent and policy, this is exactly what we feared about Whitaker's appointment, that Matt Whitaker was picked not because Matt Whitaker was qualified for the job -- Matt Whitaker really isn't -- but Matt Whitaker was picked because Matt Whitaker was auditioning on TV talking down the Mueller investigation, talking about Matt Whitaker could -- how we could privately cripple the Mueller investigation.

3. Matt Smith:

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

4. 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.

5. Gaston Kroub:

   I could cripple competitors by shutting down their manufacturing.

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