Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of a set of spars or timbers set up as supports against the sides of a building. Also spelled cripling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of cripple.
  • adjective That cripples
  • noun State of being crippled; lameness.
  • noun Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective that cripples or disables or incapacitates

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Examples

  • He mentioned specifically what he called the crippling disease of corruption.

    CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2001 2001

  • A senior Russian diplomat says his country will not support what he called crippling sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

    MyAntiwar.org keyvan@myantiwar.org 2010

  • D.C., as part of a multi-phase process aimed at mitigating what they call the crippling effects of alcohol misuse and crime in the United States.

    unknown title 2009

  • D.C., as part of a multi-phase process aimed at mitigating what they call the crippling effects of alcohol misuse and crime in the United States.

    unknown title 2009

  • I don't believe in crippling deer and other people with a bow and I don't believe in crippling them with a rifle.

    I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010

  • I don't believe in crippling deer and other people with a bow and I don't believe in crippling them with a rifle.

    I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010

  • And, if such an authoritarian mechanism were installed, could its enforcement also result in crippling certain innovations that would have benefitted things?

    LaLa and DRM 2009

  • As an expression of crippling depression, the astronomy is darkly poetic—Melancholy has long been hiding behind the sun.

    At Film Fest, Drugs, Dunst and Dazzle Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • In one of the largest Statehouse rallies ever, thousands of unionized government workers and social-service advocates rallied for an income-tax hike that could avert billions of dollars in crippling budget cuts.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Raise our Taxes! 2010

  • In one of the largest Statehouse rallies ever, thousands of unionized government workers and social-service advocates rallied for an income-tax hike that could avert billions of dollars in crippling budget cuts.

    Coyote Blog » 2010 » April 2010

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