crippled
kri puhld
- v deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
This measure crippled our efforts - v deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
The accident has crippled her for life - s disabled in the feet or legs
a crippled soldier
- Tucked up at home in a high bed, his window framing green countryside and in the distance the Atlantic coast that crippled him, Ramon Sampedro might never have been heard of again .
- Sabin, like Louis Pasteur, believed the way to produce immunity was to create a mild infection with a "live" but crippled virus, and he concocted his competing vaccine accordingly.
- Trends are created or crippled on her command.