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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Miss Marian walked very well now; her limp was scarcely noticeable.
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.
Then he fell back into an armchair so limp and exhausted with his own emotions that we had to pour brandy down his throat to keep him from fainting.
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