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
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“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.
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have allowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
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