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  • verb Present participle of limp.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

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Examples

  • I didn't want to move Dave, he came in limping this morning and was taking a nap on my desk. at

    shipping successes 2008

  • I didn't want to move Dave, he came in limping this morning and was taking a nap on my desk. at

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • With Martin limping, Shawn Marion hit a 3-pointer to make it 73-66 before Sacramento called a timeout.

    USATODAY.com - Basketball - Phoenix vs. Sacramento 2006

  • She was still limping from a leg injury that she had suffered during one of the evacuations from her home on Rolling Bay Walk.

    The Liquid Earth 1999

  • She was still limping from a leg injury that she had suffered during one of the evacuations from her home on Rolling Bay Walk.

    The Liquid Earth 1999

  • However, as to poor Lady Margaret, she may do as well as ever by and bye, for she has an excellent constitution, and I suppose she has been hardly any better than she is now these forty years, for I remember when I was quite a boy hearing her called a limping old puddle.”

    Cecilia 2008

  • However, as to poor Lady Margaret, she may do as well as ever by and bye, for she has an excellent constitution, and I suppose she has been hardly any better than she is now these forty years, for I remember when I was quite a boy hearing her called a limping old puddle. "

    Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796

  • Fresh from the command of his beautiful horse-battery and the dashing service with a cavalry division, Cram hated the idea of limping along, as he expressed it, behind a battalion of foot, and said so, and somebody told Brax he had said so, -- more than one somebody, probably, for Brax had many an adviser to help keep him in trouble.

    Waring's Peril Charles King 1888

  • I'm conceited, too, for I hate the idea of limping, and being stiff and ungraceful.

    Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • They also engage in protective reactions, such as limping and rubbing, after being hurt.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Kylopod 2010

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