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cripple

verb as in hinder action, progress

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At one time Myanmar was subjected to harsh sanctions that crippled its economy.

Second, our sense of the possible has been crippled by two decades of helplessness and resignation under the thumb of the tech giants.

From Time

Our sense of the possible has been crippled by two decades of helplessness and resignation under the thumb of the tech giants.

From Time

During the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s, the Nigerian government famously cut off food supplies from the citizens of Biafra, leaving many Biafrans hungry while significantly crippling its military base.

From Eater

As the immune system tries to fight off the virus, the lungs and those air sacs become inflamed and fill with fluid, crippling their ability to transport oxygen into the blood.

After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life.

Sectoral sanctions that could cripple the Russian economy are also long overdue.

On September 16 he was called into court in Manhattan, charged with the alarming crime of punching a cripple.

Bring down the Assads, and you cripple the mullahs in both Iran and Lebanon.

In some cases, the aftermath of disasters can cripple the very infrastructure that would enable recovery.

That would have ended our little Alila's life in a moment, or at least made him a cripple for the rest of his days.

There was, however, only one waggon and that a cripple, and neither carpenters nor smiths were at the station to repair it.

The first of these unfortunates was of the parish of Barking, aged sixty-eight, a painter and a cripple.

For a man only to give a half confidence, is to cripple to that extent the capacity of the one who is responsible.

And I'm a cripple, and she's beautiful—— Oh, my mind's in a muddle!

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cripple, such as: debilitate, disable, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, and paralyze.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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