Word Finder - limping

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To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.

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(of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.

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The bomber limped home on one engine.

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To move or proceed irregularly.

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The business limped through the recession

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To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.

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To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.

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To happen; befall; chance.

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To come upon; meet.

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The motion of one who limps.

Pierre did not look round again but went limping up the hill.

The captain returned to the room, limping slightly and whistling a tune.

The officer walked in front, leaning on a stick and slightly limping.

Still smiling, the French officer spread out his hands before Gerasim's nose, intimating that he did not understand him either, and moved, limping, to the door at which Pierre was standing.

When he hit her, she said she fell, hit her knee and was limping.

If your puppy starts limping, examine his paw pads and legs for injury.

After the second day's march Pierre, having examined his feet by the campfire, thought it would be impossible to walk on them; but when everybody got up he went along, limping, and, when he had warmed up, walked without feeling the pain, though at night his feet were more terrible to look at than before.

External features and poetical structure.-These poems exhibit a peculiar metre, the so-called " limping verse," of which Am.

Slipped upper femoral epiphysis is a common cause of limping and leg pain in adolescents, and the symptoms should be taken seriously.

The startup isn't losing much or any money, so it keeps limping along.

If you're shopping for Naturalizer shoes, it is because you are aware that limping around the home or office is three miles south of glamorous!

He was limping and hurting, but not in bad enough shape to keep him hospitalized.

In epic poetry Hephaestus is rather a comic figure, and his limping gait provokes "Homeric laughter" among the gods.

In 428 or 429 the whole nation set sail for Africa, upon an invitation received by their king from Bonifacius, count of Africa, who had fallen into disgrace with the court of Ravenna Gunderic was now dead, and supreme power was in the hands of his bastard brother, who is generally known in history as Genseric, though the more correct form of his name is Gaiseric. This man, short of stature and with limping gait, but with a great natural capacity for war and dominion, reckless of human life and unrestrained by conscience or pity, was for fifty years the hero of the Vandal race and the terror of Constantinople and Rome.

Limping, Jade returned to the site where he.d killed Sasha.