LAMING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

laming

verb

present participle of lame

as in crippling

to cause severe or permanent injury to we were afraid that the horse would be lamed by its horrible fall

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In the days after the ceasefire broke down, the Houthis announced a blockade on Saudi shipping, and launched attacks crippling Saudi Arabia’s oil export infrastructure.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
An explosion tore through the Apollo 13 service module, crippling the spacecraft and venting the crew’s oxygen supply into space.

— Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of crippling

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The video shows the Taser not incapacitating her and the woman walking quickly toward the officers while waving the knives in front of her.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
All that before disorienting and incapacitating a potential school shooter in about a minute.

— Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of incapacitating

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That makes the technology particularly interesting for counter-drone missions, where disabling an aircraft’s sensors or critical components may be sufficient to bring it down.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
When Urich was young, his father suffered a disabling stroke; Netanyahu became a father figure to him.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of disabling

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Kyiv region military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said on Saturday that a warehouse and production premise had been hit, injuring four people.

— Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Elephants can be extremely destructive and dangerous, and several African countries must confront the problem of elephant herds destroying farmers’ crops and infrastructure as well as killing or injuring people.

— Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of injuring

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That’s how this season starts, and Reacher’s methods of maiming and/or killing only get more elaborate.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Its entire loop revolved around strategic mechanical dismemberment, a concept perfected all the way back in Ninja Gaiden 2, where maiming enemies directly fed into brutal instant finishers.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of maiming

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David Hearn, the former Olympics canoeist accused of damaging Washington's Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before prosecutors dropped the case, cannot be recharged, a judge has ruled.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, on the charging case, iFixit struggled to access its components without damaging the external plastic.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of damaging

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East Village resident Daniel Rakowitz was charged with killing and mutilating a female acquaintance in 1989, then trying to get rid of the evidence by making soup out of her remains and serving it in Tompkins Square Park.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026
The 21-year-old pleaded not guilty last month to charges including first-degree murder with special circumstances, lewd and lascivious acts with an individual under 14 and mutilating a body.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of mutilating

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