| crippling |
| 1. v. present participle of cripple | |
| 2. adj. That cripples or incapacitates | |
| crippling depression | |
| 3. n. State of being crippled; lameness. | |
| 4. 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. | |
| depression |
| 1. n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future. | |
| I used to suffer from depression, but now I'm mostly content with my life. | |
| 2. n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings. | |
| 3. n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide. | |
| 4. n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes. | |
| 5. n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction. | |
| 6. n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER. | |
| The Great Depression was the worst financial event in US history. | |
| 7. n. The act of lowering or pressing something down. | |
| Depression of the lever starts the machine. | |
| 8. n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation. | |
