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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
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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
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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
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With Martin limping, Shawn Marion hit a 3-pointer to make it 73-66 before Sacramento called a timeout.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They also engage in protective reactions, such as limping and rubbing, after being hurt.
Archive 2010-01-01 Kylopod 2010
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