The phrase "he crippled" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used as a descriptor of someone or something that has been rendered unable to function properly due to an injury, illness, or other impairment. Example: "After falling from the tree, the young boy lay on the ground, his leg visibly twisted and broken. He cried out in pain, knowing that the fall had crippled his ability to walk for weeks to come."
His father ensured that ancient Greek and Latin literature shaped Macaulay's mind, but he crippled his heir emotionally.
He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
On the other hand, Cribb said, he "crippled Indonesia's public life". Suharto was born June 8 , 1921 in a poor village in central Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies.
In the process, he crippled a tourist industry that thrived on the passion of travelers who were enchanted by Kenya and who went home to spread the word about an African paradise.
A man of no formal schooling, his nomadic lifestyle took him from the battle fields of Lepanto, where he crippled his left arm, to five years as a hostage in Algeria; he later roamed Spain as a tax collector and civil servant for the Spanish Armada, all the time trying to write plays, poems and novels.
Last year, the pain was so bad he was crippled – until he got help from an acupuncturist.
"You must understand," al-Zahar said, "that no one in Israel who reaches eighteen can bypass the Army, unless he is crippled, and he will serve at least two or three years as a soldier in the occupation.
After he was crippled by polio, he was not physically able to make the inspections.
Although he recovered to some extent, he was crippled and eventually died in 1780, purportedly due to the injuries he had sustained in the attack a decade earlier.
When he breaks from cycling, he is crippled by headaches and violent memories of the Rwandan genocide in which all six of his brothers were killed.
