Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of limbs.
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- adjective Lacking
limbs .
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- adjective having no limbs
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Examples
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Fourteen years later, while serving in the Union army, Gilmore took “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye,” an Irish antiwar song of a soldier returning from war blind and limbless, added elements of a Negro spiritual he had heard sung by a black street urchin, “dressed it up, gave it a name, and rhymed it into usefulness for a special purpose suited to the times.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It is limbless, snake-like, slimy and almost impossible to hold.
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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When the United States refused to allow thalidomide to be sold in this country, even though it was being sold in Europe, we saved countless children from being born limbless and otherwise deformed.
Ed Koch: Canada Appears More Protective of Its Children Than Is The U.S. Ed Koch 2010
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When the United States refused to allow thalidomide to be sold in this country, even though it was being sold in Europe, we saved countless children from being born limbless and otherwise deformed.
Ed Koch: Canada Appears More Protective of Its Children Than Is The U.S. Ed Koch 2010
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When the United States refused to allow thalidomide to be sold in this country, even though it was being sold in Europe, we saved countless children from being born limbless and otherwise deformed.
Ed Koch: Canada Appears More Protective of Its Children Than the US Ed Koch 2010
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It is limbless, snake-like, slimy and almost impossible to hold.
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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Under the old eyes of a principal whose narrow glance is ample to subdue but not appall, the children spill around the skinned and limbless maple as if outside the temple of a declining god of simple rituals easily met.
Under the Maypole 2009
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It is limbless, snake-like, slimy and almost impossible to hold.
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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It is limbless, snake-like, slimy and almost impossible to hold.
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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Mark Burrier will have Show Off, a 16-page collection of drawings of "strange limbless people speaking to each other."
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