Vocabulary
Cripple
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly.
Urdu meaning
اپاہج، معذور ہونا،
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Casualties and damage to critical infrastructure such as hospitals, roads and utilities could cripple Karachi for weeks.
- Developing countries demonstrate how repression, violence and legal harassment can cripple journalism.
- When crops fail, farmers migrate to cities already bursting at the seams; when floods destroy infrastructure, foreign investors flee; when heatwaves cripple labour, GDP withers.
- Tariffs on key computing parts are expected to raise development costs by more than a third, a surge that could cripple smaller labs and delay innovation ateven thelargest ones.
- Tariffs on GPUs alone are expected to spike development costs by as much as 35pc, which could cripple smaller AI startups and dramatically slow progress at larger labs.
Synonyms
disable, paralyse, immobilize, make lame, lame, incapacitate, debilitate, handicap;
Antonyms
able-bodied, boost
Curator example
“a young student was crippled for life”
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