crippling vs suicidal

crippling

adj
  • That cripples or incapacitates 

  • Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging. 

  • Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental. 

noun
  • Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. 

  • State of being crippled; lameness. 

suicidal

adj
  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

  • Pertaining to suicide. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

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