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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024limp1 /lɪmp/USA pronunciation v. [no object]- Pathologyto walk with difficult movement, with one leg or foot dragging behind:The injured player limped off the field.
- to progress with great difficulty, hesitation, or slowness:The economy limps along.
n. [countable] - a lame movement or way of walking.
limp2 /lɪmp/USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est. - lacking stiffness, as of substance or structure;
too soft:a limp rag. - tired;
fatigued:I was limp with exhaustion. - without firmness, force, energy, etc.:limp writing.
limp•ly, adv. limp•ness, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024limp1 (limp),USA pronunciation v.i. - Pathologyto walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
- to proceed in a lame, faltering, or labored manner:His writing limps from one cliché to another. The old car limped along.
- to progress slowly and with great difficulty;
make little or no advance:an economy that limps along at a level just above total bankruptcy.
n. - a lame movement or gait:The accident left him with a slight limp.
- 1560–70; back formation from obsolete limphault lame; Old English lemphealt limping (see halt2); akin to Middle High German limpfen to limp
- lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame:a limp body.
- lacking vitality;
weary;
tired;
fatigued:Limp with exhaustion, she dropped into the nearest chair. - without firmness, force, energy, etc., as of character:limp, spiritless prose.
- flexible;
not stiff or rigid:a Bible in a limp leather binding.
- Scandinavian; compare Icelandic limpa slackness, limpilegur soft, flabby
- perh. 1700–10
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged flabby, flaccid, soft.
- 2, 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged feeble, weak.
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