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. Donald Trump:

   Under this rule, if a pastor, priest or imam speaks about issues of public or political importance, they are threatened with the loss of their tax exempt status -- a crippling financial punishment, very, very unfair. But no longer.

2. Donald Trump:

   These are crippling loopholes that cause family separation, which we don't want.

3. Mehmet Oz:

   I’m a doctor, and I get if he is too sick to participate because of his crippling stroke, but he does have to come forward and transparently explain to Pennsylvania what is going on.

4. 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.

5. Stuart King:

   It's an interesting balancing act with the UK wanting to be seen as thought leaders without crippling international competitiveness in other areas like remuneration.