limp
/lɪmp/ verb C2- To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
He/she/it limps · Past limped · Past participle limped · -ing form limping
Verb forms
- Base form
- limp
- He/she/it
- limps
- Past
- limped
- Past participle
- limped
- -ing form
- limping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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That creature had gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being foot-sore.
He was a different man from the limp and lounging figure in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown who had prowled so restlessly only a few hours before round the fog-girt room.
Nevertheless, when Diana and the other girls had rushed frantically around the house--except Ruby Gillis, who remained as if rooted to the ground and went into hysterics--they found Anne lying all white and limp among the wreck and ruin of the Virginia creeper.
“Everybody has been so good and kind, Marilla,” sighed Anne happily, on the day when she could first limp across the floor.
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