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Synonyms and Antonyms of crippling
- the car crash may have crippled two people for life
dismembering, hamstringing, hobbling, paralyzing
battering, bruising, bunging up, mangling, mauling, roughing (up)
goring, lacerating, winging, wounding
breaking, damaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring
bashing, beating, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, drubbing, hammering, lacing, lambasting, licking, pasting, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), thumping
banging, boxing, hitting, punching, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, swatting, swiping, thrashing, thwacking, whacking
- the collision so severely crippled the ship that it had to be towed into port
deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakening
eroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)
botching, gumming (up), queering
disabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturing
annihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling (or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking
- a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry
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