ripple's Usage Examples:

Just one of the missing keypads was enough to cripple half the country.

Why don't we need to worry about one of the keypads?Just one of the missing keypads was enough to cripple half the country.

In the Matamoras expedition the Texan forces were severely crippled on account of a quarrel between Governor Smith, who desired independence, and the majority of his council, who favoured union with the Mexican Liberals.

That officer, when over seventy years, and having already nine daughters and one son, because that son was a cripple, sought an alliance with a gentleman of the Yen clan, who had three daughters.

This explains why current music is too referential, crippled by nostalgia and too many ' classic ' record collections.

If the computer you are using is a business computer, it's possible the virus program can steal information or cripple the company's network by making it inoperable.

as they had robbed her of Cyprus in 570, still further crippled her resources.

Permanently crippled by his wounds, he devoted himself to political and social studies.

Never has swimwear caused such ripples - or come with such high price tags.

Soul power rippled through him and with it, the sensation of the invisible shackles he'd worn his entire adult life melting away.

Person with arthritis NOT crippled with arthritis, arthritic.

"We have rippled floors," Dean said, just to get the last word in.

The church of St Giles, Cripplegate, London, was built about 1090, while the hospital for lepers at St Giles-in-the-Fields (near New Oxford Street) was founded by Queen Matilda in 1117.

Synonyms:

wavelet, moving ridge, riffle, rippling, wave,

Antonyms:

rough, stand still, disappear, lose, uncross,