disabled
severely damaged and unable to operate effectively:
A crippled submarine found itself unable to surface.
Officials had hoped those measures would calm investors' nerves and heal the crippled financial system.
severely affected or limited by something:
People who take on other people's troubles are likely to end up feeling crippled by stress.
He was a hugely talented man, but crippled by self-doubt.
computing specialized
(of software or a device) limited in the way that it works, usually intentionally in order to make the user pay for more software, etc.: （软件或设备）功能被限制的
Some users have managed to unlock these crippled processors.
Fighter pilots will sometimes remain with their crippled plane and not eject rather than allow it to crash into a populated area.
Dangerous levels of radiation were leaking from a crippled nuclear plant.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
cripplingly
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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