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Discover LudwigThe phrase "he was crippled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone who has a physical disability or impairment, particularly in a historical or literary context.
Example: "After the accident, he was crippled and had to adapt to a new way of life."
Alternatives: "he was disabled" or "he was impaired."
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He was crippled by excitement.
She had diabetes, and he was crippled by arthritis.
He was crippled by a depression that had afflicted him since university.
Last year, the pain was so bad he was crippled – until he got help from an acupuncturist.
During the last decade of his life he was crippled by rheumatism and by his many wounds.
Warangkula, who died in 2001, received nothing from either of the sales, even though at the time he was crippled, partially blind, and destitute.
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They have one son, and they think he's crippled.
It's not that he is crippled by his high Q rating.
Is the problem that he is crippled by the cold, judgmental "attitude toward women's appearances" so common in the men in his supposedly enlightened social set?
But "Bertie," as Firth's character is known to his family, has much graver concerns: he is crippled by a stammer that makes public speaking a devilish chore.
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.
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