Crippling and Help

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Crippling adjective - That cripples or disables or incapacitates.

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Help is an antonym for crippling in topics: progress, disable.

Nearby Words: cripple, crippled

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Crippling is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

As it turns out, "Slow" Joe simply has a crippling speech impediment - which the school completely failed to diagnose, much less help him with.

Source: Western Animation / Unsupervised
Weaksauce Weakness: Festro apparently has a crippling fear of mom jeans, which the other Disgustoids help him conquer.

Source: Western Animation / Secret Mountain Fort Awesome
According to the manual the Demon King sent him to serve the hero out of respect for the heroes strength in battle, and to help him out due to crippling injury he received as part of the fight.

Source: Video Game / Princess Maker

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