crippled

[US]/'kripld/
[UK]/ ˈkrɪpl..d/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. disabled, limping
v. to make someone a cripple, to injure and disable

Example Sentences

a young student was crippled for life.

The ship was crippled in the storm.

The accident crippled him for life.

a strike that crippled the factory.

developing countries are crippled by their debts.

The general strike of the railway workers crippled the country's economy.

The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water.

avoiding the lame-duckery that has so crippled the man now in the White House.

He had been crippled by a rare type of paralysis spreading from his ankle.

Cynics point out that all this speculation is a great way of keeping Mr Bloomberg's name in lights, and avoiding the lame-duckery that has so crippled the man now in the White House.

Plot: A guy and four of his friends visit his crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives with his housekeeper next to a movie set.

Wong Yerk See, angered at their betrayal, crippled the legs of his remaining students (Luk Sing Fung, Kook Ling Fung, Fung Mak Fung).

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