Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a set of spars or timbers set up as supports against the sides of a building. Also spelled
cripling .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
cripple . - adjective That
cripples - noun State of being crippled; lameness.
- noun Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that cripples or disables or incapacitates
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Examples
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He mentioned specifically what he called the crippling disease of corruption.
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A senior Russian diplomat says his country will not support what he called crippling sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
MyAntiwar.org keyvan@myantiwar.org 2010
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D.C., as part of a multi-phase process aimed at mitigating what they call the crippling effects of alcohol misuse and crime in the United States.
unknown title 2009
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D.C., as part of a multi-phase process aimed at mitigating what they call the crippling effects of alcohol misuse and crime in the United States.
unknown title 2009
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I don't believe in crippling deer and other people with a bow and I don't believe in crippling them with a rifle.
I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010
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I don't believe in crippling deer and other people with a bow and I don't believe in crippling them with a rifle.
I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010
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And, if such an authoritarian mechanism were installed, could its enforcement also result in crippling certain innovations that would have benefitted things?
LaLa and DRM 2009
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As an expression of crippling depression, the astronomy is darkly poetic—Melancholy has long been hiding behind the sun.
At Film Fest, Drugs, Dunst and Dazzle Joe Morgenstern 2011
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In one of the largest Statehouse rallies ever, thousands of unionized government workers and social-service advocates rallied for an income-tax hike that could avert billions of dollars in crippling budget cuts.
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In one of the largest Statehouse rallies ever, thousands of unionized government workers and social-service advocates rallied for an income-tax hike that could avert billions of dollars in crippling budget cuts.
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