crippling

/ ˈkrɪplɪŋ /

adjective

1. damaging or injurious

Other Word Forms

• cripplingly adverb

Example Sentences

It comes weeks after Jaguar Land Rover halted operations at its UK factories for around a month following a crippling and costly cyberattack.

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Many economists and housing advocates argue that California needs to add density to single-family neighborhoods to fix the state’s crippling housing shortage.

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A crippling drought is depleting its reservoirs, and the city expects it won’t be able to meet the area’s water demand in as soon as 18 months.

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The costs of production are just cripplingly high.

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Zelensky on Thursday said that Kyiv’s strikes may have reduced Russia’s gasoline supplies by up to a fifth, crippling its ability to export one of its primary commodities.

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Related Words

• adverse 
• bad 
• catastrophic 
• damaging 
• destructive 
• detrimental 
• disadvantageous 
• disastrous 
• inimical 
• noxious 
• painful 
• pernicious 
• risky 
• ruinous 
• sinful 
• toxic 
• unhealthy 
• unsafe