cripple verb

1 injure

ADV. for life, permanently As a child she contracted polio and was crippled for life.

PHRASES be crippled with He's eighty and crippled with arthritis. | leave sb crippled The disease left him crippled.

2 damage

ADV. financially The industry has been financially crippled by these policies.

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