cripple vs immobilize

cripple

verb
  • To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired. 

  • To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. 

  • To damage seriously; to destroy. 

  • To nerf something which is overpowered. 

  • To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. 

noun
  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. 

  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. 

  • A rocky shallow in a stream. 

  • scrapple. 

immobilize

verb
  • To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving. 

  • To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it 

  • To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable. 

How often have the words cripple and immobilize occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )