"Crippling effects" means the severe and damaging consequences or impacts that significantly weaken or hinder something or someone.
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«crippling»
«effects»
Sentences with «crippling effects»
- This would make the federal government act like a local planning and zoning board, have crippling effects on our entire economy. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
- In the game there were no time limits, or health bars, and in which each attack could lead to crippling effects for their opponent. (tssgaming.ca)
- He threw light on the growth crippling effects of such unfree, infantile, reality - denying religion. (religion-online.org)
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