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disable, incapacitate, lame, maim, mutilate
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He returned from war a cripple.Verb
Higher taxes could cripple small businesses. an economy crippled by inflation
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So a future reconciliation bill would not only cripple Obamacare and strip millions of Americans of health coverage obtained via the exchanges, but also kill the Medicaid expansion and throw millions more out of coverage. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, "If Trump Wins, Paul Ryan's Budget Plan Will Destroy 'Ordinary Americans'," 7 Oct. 2016Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Stocks fell broadly in Asia, with the Hang Seng shedding 2.1% as pro-democracy protests crippled Hong Kong’s airport for a second day. — Damian J. Troise, BostonGlobe.com, "Stocks soar after US delays plans for some China tariffs," 13 Aug. 2019 Protesters on Monday filled the airport, crippling one of the world’s busiest transportation hubs. — New York Times, "Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party," 12 Aug. 2019 The change has benefitted some tournaments and crippled others. — Mitchell Gladstone, SI.com, "The Pros and Cons of the New PGA Tour Schedule," 7 Aug. 2019 Decades of bipartisan mismanagement and corruption, unscrupulous financial schemes hatched on Wall Street and purposeful neglect by the U.S. Congress crippled the island well before Hurricane Maria. — Time, "This is Puerto Rico's Moment for Real Change," 25 July 2019 The breaking point came in April when the failure of a Muni Metro overhead line crippled the subway for 10 hours. — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, "SF’s short-timer transit boss Ed Reiskin lands new job in Oakland," 24 July 2019 In the secondary, no cornerback outside of the starting trio of Pierre Desir, Kenny Moore and Quincy Wilson played more than nine total snaps on defense in the second half of the season; an injury to any one of those three could have been crippling. — Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, "Colts' offseason: 7 key steps for Indianapolis as team tries to go from good to great," 20 July 2019 Hundreds, if not thousands, died in the rioting, crippling Perez’s political capital and inspiring Chavez to plot an overthrow. — Peter Millard, Bloomberg.com, "A Timeline of Venezuela’s Economic Rise and Fall," 16 Feb. 2019 Runaway inflation and food scarcity has crippled Venezuela, with tens of thousands leaving the country in a mass exodus. — Stefano Pozzebon And Jessie Yeung, CNN, "Venezuelan government blames 'electromagnetic attack' for nationwide blackout," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cripple.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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