Crippling Synonyms and Antonyms

Hinder action, progress
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. mutilating
  2. dismembering
Antonyms:
  1. helping
  2. allowing
  3. encouraging
  4. aiding
  5. assisting
That cripples or disables or incapacitates
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. disabling
  2. incapacitating

Words Related to Crippling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Crippling Sentence Examples

  • Crippling pain began to take over her mind and body.

  • However, the only prospective clinical study shows no increased risk of crippling pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis and emphysema ).

  • The effects of this legal quagmire on capitalism are crippling.

  • A major stumbling block preventing this from occurring is the crippling debt these developing countries will subsequently owe.

  • The Dutch criticism on him has been that he might have done more to reform the clumsiness of their constitutional procedure, and thus given them some return for the crippling expenses of the war.

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