crippling
kri puh ling
- v deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- v deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
- s that cripples or disables or incapacitates
a crippling injury
- Paulistas do all these things because they have no choice; the city's crippling traffic problem forces them to spend a major proportion of their lives inching their way through .
- The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe.
- As a crippling drought threatens to destroy livelihoods in one of America's most productive agricultural areas, farmers aren't happy about water restrictions aimed at protecting .