crippling

English

Verb

crippling

1. present participle and gerund of cripple

Adjective

crippling (comparative more crippling, superlative most crippling)

1. That cripples or incapacitates

   crippling depression

2. Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.

   The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small firms.

3. Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.

   crippling debt

Derived terms

• cripplingly

 

Translations

that cripples

• Dutch: verlammend (nl)
• Finnish: rampauttava
• Hungarian: bénító (hu)

Noun

crippling (plural cripplings)

1. State of being crippled; lameness.
2. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crippling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)