资料来源 : pyDict
局部失稳破坏; 局部失稳破坏
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).]
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
foot; to lame.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
W. Scott.
2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
body politic. --Macaulay.
Crippling \Crip"pling\ (-pl?ng), n.
Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a
building.
资料来源 : WordNet®
crippling
adj : that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling
injury" [syn: {disabling}, {incapacitating}]