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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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Gaston Kroub:

   I could cripple competitors by shutting down their manufacturing.

5. 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.