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All cripple synonyms

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verb cripple

  • disable — make not work
  • progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
  • paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
  • immobilize — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
  • sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
  • injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
  • debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
  • incapacitate — to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
  • hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
  • undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
  • weaken — to make weak or weaker.
  • halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • ruinruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
  • impair — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
  • destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
  • prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • lame — an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
  • blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
  • attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
  • disarm — to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
  • dismember — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
  • sideline — a line at the side of something.
  • maim — to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
  • mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
  • mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
  • palsy — any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
  • cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
  • vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
  • spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
  • immobilise — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
  • paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
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