transcription, транскрипция: [ krɪplɪŋ ]
1.
A crippling illness or disability is one that severely damages your health or your body.
Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases...
ADJ : ADJ n
2.
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 capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms...
ADJ : usu ADJ n