Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of crippled
- the car crash may have crippled two people for life
dismembered, hamstrung, hobbled, paralyzed
battered, bruised, bunged up, mangled, mauled, roughed (up)
gored, lacerated, winged, wounded
broke, damaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured
bashed, beat, belted, bludgeoned, buffeted, drubbed, hammered, laced, lambasted, licked, pasted, pelted, pommeled (or pommelled), pounded, pummeled (also pummelled), thumped
banged, boxed, hit, punched, slapped, smacked, smashed, socked, spanked, swatted, swiped, thrashed, thwacked, whacked
- the collision so severely crippled the ship that it had to be towed into port
deteriorated, enervated, enfeebled, undermined, weakened
eroded, scoured, washed out, wore (away)
disabled, hamstrung, lamed, maimed, mangled, mutilated, tormented, tortured
annihilated, banged up, bashed, battered, clobbered, crushed, dashed, decimated, demolished, desolated, destroyed, devastated, did in, pulverized, razed, ruined, scourged, shattered, smashed, tore down, totaled (or totalled), wasted, wiped out, wrecked
- a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry
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