lame
/leɪm/ verb C2- To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
He/she/it lames · Past lamed · Past participle lamed · -ing form laming
Verb forms
- Base form
- lame
- He/she/it
- lames
- Past
- lamed
- Past participle
- lamed
- -ing form
- laming
From the library
AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame.
A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?”
“His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.
“He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
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