cripple

[US]/ˈkrɪpl/
[UK]/ˈkrɪpl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to cause someone to become disabled or severely weakened, to render someone paralyzed or unable to function normally.

Example Sentences

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).

Real-world Examples

He became a cripple as a result of the accident.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

They're the past, crippling you in the present.

Source: 2018 Best Hits Compilation

It is considered impolite to call someone a cripple.

Source: Lai Shixiong Advanced English Vocabulary 3500

An industry crippled by the coronavirus.

Source: CNN 10 Student English May 2020 Collection

But there've been celebrations in Iran, whose economy has been crippled by international sanctions.

Source: BBC Listening Collection April 2015

But this accessibility cripples both productivity and motivation.

Source: Science in Life

The traffic accident crippled John for life.

Source: Lai Shixiong Advanced English Vocabulary 3500

The damage to her body was crippling.

Source: English little tyrant

What's wrong with you? You some kind of cripple?

Source: Game of Thrones (Season 1)

It produces beauty, but it cripples the worker.

Source: Recite for the King Volume 4 (All 60 lessons)

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