ALL meanings of crippling
crip·ple
C c - adjective crippling A crippling illness or disability is one that severely damages your health or your body. 3
- adjective crippling If you say that an action, policy, or situation has a crippling effect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect. 3
- adjective crippling damaging or injurious 3
- noun crippling Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple. 1
- noun crippling anything that is impaired or flawed. 1
- noun crippling a wounded animal, especially one shot by a hunter. 1
- noun crippling Carpentry. any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a windowsill. 1
- noun crippling Delaware Valley. a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land. 1
- verb with object crippling to make a cripple of; lame. 1
- verb with object crippling to disable; impair; weaken. 1
- adjective crippling Carpentry. jack1 (def 29). 1
- adjective crippling disabling 1
- noun crippling economy, etc.: act of damaging severely 1
- noun crippling Cause (someone) to become unable to move or walk properly. 1
- verb crippling present participle of cripple. 0
- adjective crippling That cripples. 0
- noun crippling State of being crippled; lameness. 0
- noun crippling Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. 0