Showing results for "crippling"

present participle of cripple.

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crippling

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harmful adj.
ruinous adj.
tumbledown adj.
disarmament n.

ADJECTIVE

harmful

Synonyms

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adverse bad catastrophic damaging destructive detrimental disadvantageous disastrous inimical noxious painful pernicious risky ruinous sinful toxic unhealthy unsafe

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baleful baneful calamitous cataclysmic consumptive corroding corrupting deleterious dire evil harassing incendiary internecine malefic malicious malignant menacing mischievous murderous nocuous pestiferous pestilential sinister subversive undermining unwholesome virulent

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advantageous aiding assisting beneficial favorable fortunate good harmless healthy helpful honest kind lucky profitable safe upright

ADJECTIVE

ruinous

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calamitous cataclysmic catastrophic damaging deadly dire fatal harmful hurtful murderous pernicious

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annihilative baleful baneful deleterious depleting draining exhausting extravagant fateful immoderate impoverishing injurious noxious shattering suicidal unfortunate wasteful withering wrackful

Antonyms

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favorable fortunate harmless healthful helpful kind nice trivial unimportant wholesome

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advantageous assisting beneficial

ADJECTIVE

tumbledown

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annihilative baleful baneful calamitous cataclysmic catastrophic damaging deadly deleterious depleting dilapidated dire draining exhausting extravagant fatal fateful harmful hurtful immoderate impoverishing injurious murderous noxious pernicious ramshackle rundown shattering suicidal unfortunate wasteful withering wrackful

NOUN

disarmament

Synonyms

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demilitarization demobilization

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conquest de-escalation disablement disqualification freeze occupation pacification subjugation

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arms limitation arms reduction neutralizing paralyzing rendering powerless

Antonyms

STRONG

surrender yielding

WEAK

arming buildup

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crippling

Reforms under Zhu sparked a boom in real estate and construction, which would soar to become a quarter of China's economy before a crippling debt crisis struck in 2020.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Together we addressed my combination of crippling anxiety, debilitating fear and crushingly low self-image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

They hired general managers just to fire them a couple of years later, burned through coaches and signed washed-up star players to crippling contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

When a beefy bad guy who was about to squish a normal-sized good guy received a crippling blow to the scrotum, I laughed.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

I expressed my delight to be back among them, but I then scolded the people for some of the crippling problems of urban black life.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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