crippling vs wrackful

crippling

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

  • That cripples or incapacitates 

  • 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. 

wrackful

adj
  • Full of wrack or wreckage; ruinous; destructive. 

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