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cripplingly
adverb
uk /ˈkrɪ.pəl.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈkrɪ.pəl.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that causes serious problems or harm:
cripplingly shyI may have appeared confident, but in fact, I was cripplingly shy.
Osteoarthritis is a cripplingly painful disease.
The food is average and cripplingly overpriced.
The flight was cripplingly expensive.
Many adolescents are cripplingly self-conscious.
She loves her new job, but I don't know how she deals with those cripplingly early starts.
Despite the sun, when I dived in the sea the water was cripplingly cold.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
crippling
crowd
curb
curtail
curtailment
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
limit
limitation
limitative
limiting
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up
uncrippled
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