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 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]