Definition for Crippling:

• of Cripple

Synonyms for Crippling:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • disabling,
  • crippling,
  • incapacitating.
  •harmful (adjective)
  • murderous,
  • mischievous,
  • malefic,
  • Harassing,
  • risky.
  •hindering (adjective)
  • restricting,
  • Restraining,
  • Fouling,
  • Delaying,
  • Entrapping,
  • Damming,
  • frustrating,
  • inhibiting,
  • constipating,
  • Tangling,
  • bottleneck,
  • choking,
  • Snarling,
  • thwarting,
  • Obstructing,
  • Deterring,
  • congesting,
  • blocking,
  • Snagging,
  • baffling,
  • impeding,
  • Clogging,
  • Encumbering,
  • Crimping,
  • Detaining,
  • Complicating,
  • Entangling,
  • constraining,
  • burdensome,
  • Resisting.
  •ruinous (adjective)
  • Wrackful,
  • ruinous,
  • tumbledown.

• n.

  •
  • bad,
  • burning.
  •
  • autoimmune,
  • chronic,
  • advanced,
  • asymptomatic,
  • benign,
  • clinical,
  • congenital,
  • communicable.
  •
  • disruptive,
  • difficult,
  • invidious,
  • fraught,
  • embarrassing,
  • problematic,
  • troublesome,
  • adverse,
  • contentious.
  •crippling (noun)
  • unhealthful.
  •disarmament (noun)
  • deescalation,
  • disablements,
  • rendering powerless,
  • arms reduction,
  • disablement,
  • demilitarization,
  • subjugation,
  • demobilization,
  • de-escalation,
  • demobilizations,
  • arms limitation,
  • subjugations,
  • Cripplings,
  • pacification.

• v.

  •disabling (verb)
  • Hampering,
  • Neutralizing,
  • screwing up,
  • stunning,
  • disarming,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Vitiating,
  • anesthetizing,
  • Hobbling,
  • Prostrating,
  • tampering,
  • Dulling,
  • Impairing,
  • undermining,
  • hindering,
  • weakening,
  • Botching,
  • Benumbing,
  • deadening,
  • enfeebling,
  • invalidating,
  • Cramping,
  • Laming,
  • Handicapping,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Sapping,
  • Scotching,
  • stupefying,
  • Abrogating.
  •hindering (verb)
  • jamming,
  • Staying,
  • barring,
  • curbing,
  • bottlenecking,
  • catching,
  • countering,
  • opposing,
  • braking,
  • Checking,
  • fettering,
  • Miring,
  • Burdening,
  • dragging,
  • stopping,
  • Interrupting,
  • Bunging,
  • Plugging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • angry,
  • tender,
  • achy,
  • stabbing,
  • unendurable,
  • agonising,
  • torturous,
  • chapped,
  • Gnawing,
  • irritated,
  • vice-like,
  • painful,
  • inflamed,
  • agonizing,
  • dull,
  • mayhem,
  • excruciating,
  • painfully.
  •
  • raging,
  • violent,
  • acute,
  • stiff,
  • sore,
  • stinging,
  • itchy.
  •
  • raw,
  • tight.
  •
  • heavy,
  • sharp.

Paraphrases for Crippling:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    overwhelming, catastrophic, disastrous, burdensome, damaging, chilling, appalling, destructive, neuromuscular, harsh, daunting, detrimental, stun, pernicious, dire, fatal, cruel, heavy, tough, strict, stringent.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Paralyzing, hamstring.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    paralysing, debilitating, devastating, incapacitating, disabling, ruinous, severe, deadly.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    paralysing.

Antonyms for Crippling:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    healthful.

Crippling Sentence Examples:

• The banks won't look at land, and I couldn't raise you anything on mortgage except at a crippling interest.

• Things are rather tight just now, and the wretched mortgage on my place is crippling me.

Homophones for Crippling:

• corpulence, carefulness, crapulence, Corpulency, curableness, cheerfulness.