ADV
for life, permanently
The accident crippled him permanently, and he had to learn to walk again.
PHRASES
be crippled with
She was crippled with anxiety before her first day at the new job.
leave sb crippled
The accident left her crippled for the rest of her life.
ADV
financially
The company was financially crippled after losing its main contracts last year.
adj
Crippled.
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
Early treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]
noun
A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
He returned from war a cripple.
I am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
Scrapple.
A rocky shallow in a stream.
verb
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
To damage seriously; to destroy.
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.
To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
But the penny was beginning to drop: even a successful railway could be crippled by its capital costs.
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.
To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
A person who has been rendered indecisive, alienated, uncaring, confused, or helpless through experiencing debilitating emotions, such as worry, fear, panic, despair, etc.
The truth is I was an emotional cripple when I met her, drunk more often than not, punishing myself for doing things that went against my nature.
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
WiktionaryEarly treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]
WiktionaryYou let sin in a church and it will cripple that church's ministry. Let sin get its ugly hands on the life of an individual and it will wreck and ruin and twist any life that it gets a hold on. Here w
WiktionaryHe returned from war a cripple.
WiktionaryI am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
WiktionaryMany a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.
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