All cripple synonyms
crip·ple
C c 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.
- ruin — ruins, 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.