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| crippling | |
| 1. adj. That cripples or incapacitates |  |
| crippling depression | |
| 2. n. State of being crippled; lameness. | |
| 3. n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. | |
| cripple | |
| 1. adj. (now rare, dated) Crippled. | |
| 2. n. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. | |
| He returned from war a cripple. | |
| 3. n. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. | |
| 4. n. (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple. | |
| 5. n. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream. | |
| 6. v. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired | |
| The car bomb crippled five passers-by. | |
| 7. v. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy | |
| My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money. | |
| 8. v. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. | |
| The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save. | |
| 9. v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered. | |
