I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a damaging/crippling strike (= having a bad effect on an industry )
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The company now faces the prospect of a crippling strike.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
emotional
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Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples .
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But Howard's performance also suggests that Higgins is an emotional cripple .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Billy went on weeping as he contemplated the cripples and their boss.
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But against that was the sudden action of the cripple at the bridge.
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But no - for I am not a cripple , I have no debility, and something other than myself is doing this.
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He says it's sad that the thieves are so cowardly that they can't face a cripple .
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He stood in the darkroom with another trainee, Dale Fitzke, a cripple .
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She was herself a cripple , constantly in need of the sort of attention her husband had regularly given her in the evenings.
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The cripple choked and pushed the plate away.
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Which of course reminds me of the blind man and cripple riding happily together across our green countryside on that rickety train.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
economy
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High interest rates are crippling and an unstable economy can produce them at any time.
life
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Taken to extremes, what begins as an anxiety may develop into a full-blown phobia, crippling the life of the sufferer.
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His back is broken, and, barring a miracle, he's crippled for life .
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She left one dead, one born and two crippled for life , one way or the other.
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One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement.
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A fight ensued which left one man dead, one crippled for life and several with lasting scars.
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Somewhere they knew they had crippled her life , and their own responses were inadequate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Asia's economy has been crippled by inflation.
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Richard was crippled in the bombing of 1984, and had been in a wheelchair ever since.
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The accident crippled her for life.
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The driver, who had been taking drugs, crippled the young woman for life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Our tendency to reward failure has literally crippled our efforts to help the poor.
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There's only one way you can cripple a bad scientist, and that's to demonstrate how bad his science is.
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Thus, under its definitions, no one is crippled and no one is handicapped in this society.