limb
/lɪm/ verb C2- To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree). · They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
- To supply with limbs.
- To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs · Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.
He/she/it limbs · Past limbed · Past participle limbed · -ing form limbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- limb
- He/she/it
- limbs
- Past
- limbed
- Past participle
- limbed
- -ing form
- limbing
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My broken limb should excite your pity.
The unfortunate creature’s tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
“I’d let myself be torn limb from limb if it would do you any good.
The two men remained opposite one another, Morrel trembling in every limb, the stranger gazing at him with an air of profound pity.
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