crippler
What causes paralysis
A crippler is something or someone that cripples—that causes severe damage, disability, or impairment.
The term applies to injuries, diseases, or circumstances that leave a person physically disabled: Polio was once a major crippler of children.
It extends to anything that severely weakens or hobbles: The recession was a crippler for small businesses.
In wrestling, the crippler refers to a particular hold or move designed to incapacitate an opponent.
To make weak
- incapacitateDeprive of strength or ability
- impairTo diminish or damage
- weakenReduce in strength
- enfeebleMake feeble or frail
paralyze · disable · devastate · sap · drain · exhaust · enervate · atrophy
Yielding to another's will
- holdMaintain in grasp
- tapoutSurrender by physical signal
- lockMechanism requiring a key
- chokeholdNeck-constricting restraint
grappling · maneuver · technique · pin · mat · stunner · sleeper · suplex
debilitate
To make weak
- incapacitateDeprive of strength or ability
- impairTo diminish or damage
- weakenReduce in strength
enfeeble · paralyze · disable · devastate · sap · drain · exhaust · enervate · atrophy · wither
submission
Yielding to another's will
chokehold · grappling · maneuver · technique · pin · mat · stunner · sleeper · suplex · armbar
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- anguishIntense mental suffering
chronic · affliction · injury · trauma · shooting · stabbing · searing · throbbing · unbearable · excruciating
recession
Prolonged economic decline
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- debtMoney owed another
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
tariffs · embargo · inflation · depression · bankruptcy · downturn · shortage · crisis · burden · constraint
cripplerhealer
One who restores health
restorer · rehabilitator · mender · fixer · enabler
- crippling injuryHarm causing lasting disability
- crippling debt
- crippling fear
- crippling blow
- nipple cripplePainful chest-pinch prank
- crippling diseaseIllness causing severe impairment