crippling

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Crippling the organization could take weeks or even months of additional airstrikes and other military steps, analysts and Iranian opposition leaders said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Their main target: Crippling the Russian war machine.

From BBC • May 15, 2024

However, they’re too busy fighting their own internal enemies: Crippling Anxiety, Deep Depression, Low Self-Worth and Raging Hormones.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Crippling Western sanctions, on top of decades of economic mismanagement, have plunged the country into a severe crisis.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

“I got Mrs. Able to an ambulance. Both towers down, just gone. Crippling smoke. Pulverized concrete. This bag”—he holds it high—“holds some of the dust. Ashes, too.”

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes