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单词 crippling
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(krɪplɪŋ)
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A crippling illness or disability is one that severely damages your health or your body.
Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you say that an action, policy, or situation has a crippling effect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect.
The high cost of borrowing has a crippling effect on many small firms.
The American military presence on the islands had suffered a crippling blow.
cripplingly adverb
...cripplingly high interest rates.

crippling in British English

(ˈkrɪplɪŋ)
adjective
damaging or injurious
Derived forms
cripplingly (ˈcripplingly)
adverb

In other languages
crippling

British English: crippling ADJECTIVE
A crippling illness or disability is one that severely damages your health or your body.
Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
  • American English: crippling
  • Brazilian Portuguese: devastador
  • Chinese: 严重损害健康的
  • European Spanish: devastador
  • French: handicapant
  • German: lähmend
  • Italian: invalidante
  • Japanese: 身体障害を引き起こすような
  • Korean: 불구로 만드는
  • European Portuguese: deformador
  • Latin American Spanish: devastador
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