be a cripple for life
a young student was crippled for life.
The ship was crippled in the storm.
The accident crippled him for life.
a strike that crippled the factory.
developing countries are crippled by their debts.
The general strike of the railway workers crippled the country's economy.
The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water.
avoiding the lame-duckery that has so crippled the man now in the White House.
He had been crippled by a rare type of paralysis spreading from his ankle.
I threw out a "tenpenny" in the midst. The "blind" fellow saw it first, but the "lame cripple" had to foot of him.
Cynics point out that all this speculation is a great way of keeping Mr Bloomberg's name in lights, and avoiding the lame-duckery that has so crippled the man now in the White House.
Plot: A guy and four of his friends visit his crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives with his housekeeper next to a movie set.
Wong Yerk See, angered at their betrayal, crippled the legs of his remaining students (Luk Sing Fung, Kook Ling Fung, Fung Mak Fung).
He became a cripple as a result of the accident.
They're the past, crippling you in the present.
It is considered impolite to call someone a cripple.
An industry crippled by the coronavirus.
But there've been celebrations in Iran, whose economy has been crippled by international sanctions.
But this accessibility cripples both productivity and motivation.
The traffic accident crippled John for life.
The damage to her body was crippling.
What's wrong with you? You some kind of cripple?
It produces beauty, but it cripples the worker.
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