Synonyms of cripple

cripple 1 of 3

verb (1)

1

as in to incapacitate

to cause severe or permanent injury to

the car crash may have crippled two people for life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• incapacitate
• injure
• disable
• wound
• maim
• hurt
• damage
• scar
• mutilate
• kill
• paralyze
• lame
• bruise
• hobble
• impair
• hit
• dismember
• disfigure
• beat
• hamstring
• harm
• mangle
• rough (up)
• wing
• lacerate
• pummel
• maul
• lick
• batter
• smash
• bludgeon
• slap
• smack
• torture
• punch
• murder
• whack
• box
• gore
• torment
• lambaste
• hammer
• spank
• belt
• whip
• pound
• thrash
• swat
• flog
• bang
• lash
• paste
• kneecap
• bash
• break
• lambast
• thump
• swipe
• bung up
• pelt
• sock
• buffet
• wallop
• lace
• drub
• thwack
• pommel

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cure
• heal
• remedy
• rehabilitate
• fix
• restore
• patch
• repair
• renew
• mend
• doctor
• rejuvenate

2

as in to injure

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• injure
• damage
• mar
• hurt
• weaken
• impair
• compromise
• spoil
• erode
• harm
• destroy
• disfigure
• break
• undermine
• bloody
• ruin
• flaw
• vitiate
• cross (up)
• deface
• blemish
• deteriorate
• shatter
• crab
• wound
• enfeeble
• enervate
• devastate
• endamage
• demolish
• wreck
• batter
• tarnish
• blight
• wear (away)
• disable
• scour
• dent
• wash out
• maim
• decimate
• botch
• smash
• mutilate
• annihilate
• torture
• crush
• lacerate
• torment
• ding
• hamstring
• mangle
• queer
• gum (up)
• waste
• pulverize
• lame
• desolate
• wipe out
• clobber
• total
• tear down
• raze
• scourge
• dint
• bash
• do in
• dash
• bang up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rebuild
• help
• repair
• reconstruct
• fix
• patch
• heal
• mend
• cure
• renovate
• revamp
• rehabilitate
• remedy
• rectify
• improve
• recondition
• better
• enhance
• revise
• doctor
• enrich
• perfect
• ameliorate
• edit
• remodel
• refine
• meliorate

3

as in to paralyze

to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move

a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paralyze
• undermine
• incapacitate
• weaken
• disable
• immobilize
• hamstring
• undercut
• attenuate
• debilitate
• prostrate
• hobble
• sap
• maim
• mutilate
• enfeeble
• enervate
• tire
• lame
• knock out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• invigorate
• energize
• strengthen
• galvanize
• vitalize
• fortify
• empower
• restore
• revive
• revitalize
• refresh
• rejuvenate
• regenerate
• freshen
• refreshen

crippling

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noun

as in harm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• harm
• mutilation
• injury
• detriment
• disability
• mayhem
• beating
• hurt
• impairment
• damage
• lesion
• disfigurement
• disablement
• rupture
• affliction
• swelling
• defacement
• strain
• abrasion
• wound
• scratch
• contusion
• bruise
• scrape
• concussion
• gash
• burn
• laceration
• chafe
• scar
• bump
• scald
• boo-boo
• cut
• sear
• scathe

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• recovery
• healing
• remedy
• cure
• fix

crippling

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verb (2)

present participle of cripple

1

as in incapacitating

to cause severe or permanent injury to

the car crash may have crippled two people for life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• incapacitating
• disabling
• damaging
• wounding
• injuring
• bruising
• hurting
• maiming
• scarring
• killing
• paralyzing
• mutilating
• laming
• hitting
• hobbling
• impairing
• beating
• battering
• hamstringing
• disfiguring
• dismembering
• harming
• mangling
• lacerating
• mauling
• murdering
• licking
• winging
• pummeling
• pounding
• slapping
• smashing
• torturing
• hammering
• goring
• bludgeoning
• smacking
• roughing (up)
• buffeting
• punching
• whipping
• thumping
• banging
• tormenting
• whacking
• lashing
• bashing
• boxing
• lambasting
• thrashing
• pummelling
• breaking
• kneecapping
• socking
• pelting
• flogging
• pasting
• swiping
• belting
• swatting
• spanking
• walloping
• bunging up
• lacing
• drubbing
• thwacking
• pommelling
• pommeling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• curing
• healing
• remedying
• rehabilitating
• fixing
• repairing
• patching
• restoring
• mending
• renewing
• doctoring
• rejuvenating

2

as in damaging

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• marring
• injuring
• weakening
• hurting
• compromising
• impairing
• eroding
• breaking
• spoiling
• harming
• disfiguring
• destroying
• undermining
• ruining
• crossing (up)
• vitiating
• defacing
• shattering
• deteriorating
• blemishing
• flawing
• battering
• crabbing
• wounding
• bloodying
• devastating
• endamaging
• enervating
• enfeebling
• wrecking
• blighting
• disabling
• wearing (away)
• crushing
• demolishing
• tarnishing
• denting
• scouring
• torturing
• smashing
• tormenting
• washing out
• maiming
• botching
• wasting
• lacerating
• hamstringing
• mutilating
• annihilating
• decimating
• mangling
• pulverizing
• clobbering
• totalling
• gumming (up)
• wiping out
• totaling
• razing
• bashing
• dinging
• tearing down
• laming
• queering
• dinting
• scourging
• dashing
• desolating
• doing in
• banging up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairing
• rebuilding
• fixing
• reconstructing
• helping
• curing
• patching
• healing
• revamping
• reconditioning
• mending
• remedying
• renovating
• rehabilitating
• rectifying
• improving
• revising
• doctoring
• enhancing
• remodeling
• editing
• ameliorating
• refining
• enriching
• perfecting
• bettering
• meliorating

3

as in paralyzing

to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move

a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paralyzing
• undermining
• incapacitating
• disabling
• weakening
• immobilizing
• debilitating
• hamstringing
• undercutting
• sapping
• attenuating
• enervating
• prostrating
• hobbling
• tiring
• enfeebling
• mutilating
• maiming
• laming
• knocking out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• galvanizing
• strengthening
• energizing
• invigorating
• vitalizing
• empowering
• fortifying
• restoring
• reviving
• revitalizing
• regenerating
• rejuvenating
• refreshing
• freshening
• refreshening