cripple (verb)
111hobble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. shackle, bond, binding. v. limp, stagger; halt, bind, shackle, handicap, limit. See restraint, slowness, failure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To restrict] Syn. clog, fetter, shackle; see hinder , restrain… …
112injure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. wound, hurt; damage, abuse, deface, mar, impair; wrong, disgrace, dishonor, insult, mistreat, maltreat. See deterioration, evil, malevolence. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. hurt, harm, damage, wound; see… …
113reinforce — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. strengthen, support, buttress, replenish. See strength. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. buttress, bolster, augment; see strengthen . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. strengthen, fortify, *beef up, harden …
114undermine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. excavate, mine, sap; honeycomb; subvert, weaken, demoralize, thwart, frustrate. See concavity, hindrance, deterioration, weakness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [Enfeeble] Syn. impair, ruin, threaten; see… …
115wound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. injury, hurt; painfulness. v. t. injure, hurt, lame, cripple; pain; shoot, stab, cut, lacerate, tear, wing; insult, offend, gall, mortify. See deterioration, resentment. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn.… …
116wreck — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. destruction, ruin, undoing; accident, collision, crack up, smash up, crash; shipwreck; derelict; ruined person, human wreckage; breakup; ruins, demolition, wreckage, junk. v. t. smash, crash, crack up …
117enfeeble — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. weaken, debilitate, enervate, cripple; see weaken 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. weaken, deplete, enervate, debilitate, deplete, sap, emasculate, fatigue, exhaust, diminish, *take the starch out of. III (Roget s… …
118hinder — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. impede, obstruct, interfere with, check, retard, fetter, block, thwart, bar, clog, encumber, burden, cripple, handicap, cramp, preclude, inhibit, debar, shackle, interrupt, arrest, contravene, curb, resist, oppose, baffle,… …
119incapacitate — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. disable, hinder, undermine; see damage 1 , hurt 1 , weaken 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To render powerless or motionless, as by inflicting severe injury: cripple, disable, immobilize, knock out, paralyze. Idiom: put… …
120strengthen — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. intensify, add, invigorate, fortify, encourage, confirm, increase, multiply, empower, arm, energize, harden, reactivate, steel, reinforce, brace, buttress, stimulate, sustain, nerve, animate, reanimate, restore, reman,… …
