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cripple

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of cripple

1 to cause severe or permanent injury to

the car crash may have crippled two people for life

Synonyms of cripple

disable, incapacitate, lame, maim, mutilate

Words Related to cripple

dismember, hamstring, hobble, paralyze

batter, bruise, bung up, mangle, maul, rough (up)

gore, lacerate, wing, wound

disfigure, scar

break, damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure

bash, beat, belt, bludgeon, buffet, drub, hammer, lace, lambaste (or lambast), lick, paste, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, thump

bang, box, hit, punch, slap, smack, smash, sock, spank, swat, swipe, thrash, thwack, whack

flog, lash, wallop, whip

torment, torture

Near Antonyms of cripple

cure, heal, rehabilitate, remedy

doctor, fix, mend, patch

rejuvenate, renew, repair, restore

2 to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the collision so severely crippled the ship that it had to be towed into port

Synonyms of cripple

blemish, bloody, break, compromise, crab, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate

Words Related to cripple

deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken

erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)

blight, tarnish

dent, ding, dint

botch, gum (up), queer

lacerate, wound

disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture

annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck

Near Antonyms of cripple

cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedy

edit, remodel, revise

ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine

Antonyms of cripple

doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp

3 to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move

a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry

Synonyms of cripple

disable, hamstring, immobilize, incapacitate, paralyze, prostrate

Words Related to cripple

attenuate, debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, sap, tire, undercut, undermine, weaken

Near Antonyms of cripple

energize, galvanize, invigorate, vitalize

fortify, strengthen

freshen, refresh, refreshen, regenerate, rejuvenate, restore, revitalize, revive

Synonym Discussion of cripple

maim, cripple, mutilate, batter, mangle mean to injure so severely as to cause lasting damage. maim implies the loss or injury of a bodily member through violence.

- maimed by a shark

cripple implies the loss or serious impairment of an arm or leg.

- crippled for life in an accident

mutilate implies the cutting off or removal of an essential part of a person or thing thereby impairing its completeness, beauty, or function.

- a tree mutilated by inept pruning

batter implies a series of blows that bruise deeply, deform, or mutilate.

- an old ship battered by fierce storms

mangle implies a tearing or crushing that leaves deep wounds.

- a soldier's leg mangled by shrapnel

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