Synonyms for crippling
crip·pling

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1. crippling, disabling, incapacitatingadjective

   that cripples or disables or incapacitates

   "a crippling injury"

   Synonyms:
   disabling, incapacitating, disqualifying

   Antonyms:
   healthful

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1. nerf

   the term in gaming ones, as slang, to make it weaker or worse

   there is a nerf to the skills in-game.

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "crippling":

   paralysing, incapacitating, devastating, overwhelming, ruinous, disabling, debilitating

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1. The United:

   Every day we are proving we can protect our workers, create new jobs and safeguard the environment without imposing crippling mandates and one-sided international agreements on our citizens.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   It is immoral and unconscionable that families across the country are finding themselves nearly broke or bankrupt because of crippling medical debt while the health care industry made more than $100 billion in profits last year.

3. Scott Walker:

   As president, on my very first day going forward, I would pull back -- I would terminate that bad deal with Iran completely on day one, i would then put in place crippling economic sanctions against Iran, and I'd convince our allies that this is not a country we should be doing business with.

4. Dan Bishop:

   [G]as prices are $4 or $5 in some places and likely to get up into $6, $7, $8. We are crippling American energy production. Just terrible decisions on every front, and the American people are ready to make a change.

5. Kathleen Rodgers:

   We both lived in crippling fear every second of every day that the notification team would show up on our doorstep and change our lives forever, i can't imagine experiencing that again.