limp
/lɪmp/ verb B1- To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
- To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. · The bomber limped home on one engine.
- To move or proceed irregularly. · The business limped through the recession
- To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
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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She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs.
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.
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