hurt or wound so that use of one or more of the limbs is made difficult or impossible
damage or weaken seriously
"This measure crippled our efforts"
"Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
"The accident has crippled her for life"
My mother returned..as a complete cripple, unable to walk from the sitting-room to the downstairs lavatory, or to wash or dress herself, or to brush her hair.
出自: D. Murphy
A local farmer who had been crippled as a boy, losing his right arm in an accident.
出自: G. Greene