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Meaning of crippling

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

crippling

verb

Definitions

  1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

    Example: The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

  2. To damage seriously; to destroy

    Example: My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

  3. To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

    Example: The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

  4. To nerf something which is overpowered

noun

Definitions

  1. State of being crippled; lameness.

  2. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

adjective

Definitions

  1. That cripples or incapacitates

    Example: crippling depression