crippling
  局部失穩破壞; 局部失穩破壞
  Crip·ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling ]
  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.
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  Crip·pling n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
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  crippling
       adj : that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling
             injury" [syn: disabling, incapacitating]