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  • noun Plural form of crippling.

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Examples

  • It was Governor Kaine's plan, and it would have gone a long way to helping Virginia solve some major transportation funding cripplings, and given new legs to improving bottlenecks all over the state and solidifying Virginia's top reputation as a well-run state and a good location for business.

    Transportation Special Session Ends 2006

  • He has on his head the deaths and cripplings of thousands and thousands of human beings world wide.

    Progress Towards Impeachment is Going Well 2007

  • He has on his head the deaths and cripplings of thousands and thousands of human beings world wide.

    Progress Towards Impeachment is Going Well 2007

  • I felt a little uncomfortable about the cripplings and arsons this person had been entertaining himself with, for I could not help feeling remotely accessory to them.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • They are afraid of being killed, afraid of being crippled, afraid of venturing out where killings and cripplings are carried on as branches of a highly specialised business.

    From Place to Place 1910

  • I felt a little uncomfortable about the cripplings and arsons this person had been entertaining himself with, for I could not help feeling remotely accessory to them.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • Bracketed between these two glorious victories were the agonies of martyred France, the deaths and life-long cripplings of millions of men, the up-rooting of arrogant militarism, the liberation of captive nations.

    History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895

  • The wet young beeches were undergoing amputations, bruises, cripplings, and harsh lacerations, from which the wasting sap would bleed for many a day to come, and which would leave scars visible till the day of their burning.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • I felt a little uncomfortable about the cripplings and arsons this person had been entertaining himself with, for I could not help feeling remotely accessory to them.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872

  • I felt a little uncomfortable about the cripplings and arsons this person had been entertaining himself with, for I could not help feeling remotely accessory to them.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

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