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Limp   /lɪmp/   Listen
Limp

noun
1.
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.  Synonyms: hitch, hobble.
adjective
1.
Not firm.  Synonym: wilted.
2.
Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience.  "A limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" , "A slack grip"
verb
(past & past part. limped; pres. part. limping)
1.
Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury.  Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble.
2.
Proceed slowly or with difficulty.



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"Limp" Quotes from Famous Books



... one was huddled close up to the face of the mother, who when she realized their terrible fate had evidently raised it to her lips to imprint upon its lips the last kiss it was to receive in this world. The sight forced many a stout heart to shed tears. The limp bodies, with matted hair, some with holes in their heads, eyes knocked out and all bespattered with blood were a ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... the wash of it, we found Jones crouching under the weather rail. One arm was jammed round the bulwark stanchion, the wrist stiffened and torn by the wrench, the other held the Kid—a limp, unconscious figure. ...
— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone
... length she lay between the cool sheets, silent, limp, heavy-lidded, Kathleen turned out the electric brackets ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... our great writers (and there are numbers of them amongst us), he could not resist praise, and began to be limp at once, in spite of his penetrating wit. But I consider this is pardonable. They say that one of our Shakespeares positively blurted out in private conversation that "we great men can't do otherwise," and so on, and, what's more, was ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... on which was a beard of several days' growth, distorted by anguish, sweating; his tousled brown hair was limp with sweat. ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett


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