英语词汇“limp”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	limp
释义	limp limp¹ —limper, n. —limpingly, adv. /limp/, v.i. 1. to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame. 2. to proceed in a lame, faltering, or labored manner: His writing limps from one cliché to another. The old car limped along. 3. 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. 4. a lame movement or gait: The accident left him with a slight limp. [1560-70; back formation from obs. limphault lame; OE lemphealt limping (see HALT²); akin to MHG limpfen to limp] limp² —limply, adv. —limpness, n. /limp/, adj., limper, limpest. 1. lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body. 2. lacking vitality; weary; tired; fatigued: Limp with exhaustion, she dropped into the nearest chair. 3. without firmness, force, energy, etc., as of character: limp, spiritless prose. 4. flexible; not stiff or rigid: a Bible in a limp leather binding. [1700-10; perh. < Scand; cf. Icel limpa slackness, limpilegur soft, flabby] Syn. 1. flabby, flaccid, soft. 2, 3. feeble, weak.
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