Crippling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).]
     1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
        foot; to lame.
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              He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
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     2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
        service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
        to be financially crippled.
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              More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
              energy of the settlement in the Bay.  --Palfrey.
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              An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
              body politic.                         --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crippling \Crip"pling\ (-pl?ng), n.
     Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a
     building.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crippling
       adj : that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling
             injury" [syn: {disabling}, {incapacitating}]