'Crippling' definitions:
Definition of 'crippling'
(from WordNet)
adjective
That cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: crippling, disabling, incapacitating]
Definition of 'Crippling'
From: GCIDE
- Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]
- 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. [1913 Webster]
- He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. [1913 Webster]
- More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
- An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crippling'
From: GCIDE
- Crippling \Crip"pling\ (-pl?ng), n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. [1913 Webster]