crippling
English edit
Verb edit
crippling
- present participle and gerund of cripple
Adjective edit
crippling (comparative more crippling, superlative most crippling)
- That cripples or incapacitates
- crippling depression
- Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
- The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small firms.
- Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.
- crippling debt
Translations edit
that cripples
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Noun edit
crippling (plural cripplings)
- State of being crippled; lameness.
- Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crippling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)