cripple

Example Sentences

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The storm was expected to linger for days, shifting into the heavily populated mid-Atlantic and northeastern states while crippling daily life and ushering in a frigid air mass across the country.

From Barron's

It warns of “crippling ice and sleet to portions of the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley Friday.”

From Barron's

"One day," Qi said, "we hope to develop mitochondria-targeted therapies that will enable people to regain normal function and quality of life, transforming Parkinson's from a crippling, progressive condition into a manageable or resolved one."

From Science Daily

For Citi’s global strategy team, this crippling uncertainty undermines the argument for an inflection point upwards in European corporate earnings and so it downgrades its recommendation on continental stocks to neutral.

From MarketWatch

It was a more optimistic era; the generals could see their South East Asian neighbours prospering through trade with the Western world, and they wanted an end to crippling economic sanctions.

From BBC