- present participle of cripple.
crippling
Britishadjective
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The sanctions could deal a potentially crippling blow to the ICC by cutting it off from the U.S. financial system and prohibiting it from conducting transactions in dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He is expected to say that faster connections to the electricity grid could help fix a "cost crisis" in energy that has proved "crippling for businesses".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Their crippling codependence is alienating, as if there really were only one of them.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government placed the troubled plant under state administration in February 2024 to try to protect jobs in a region with crippling unemployment and has been seeking a buyer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Orr was snuffling and sneezing with a crippling head cold.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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