limpverb
uk/lɪmp/us/lɪmp/limp verb (PERSON/ANIMAL)
[ I ] to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot:
Three minutes into the game, Jackson limped off the pitch with a serious ankle injury.
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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- blunder
- bumble
- doddery
- falter
- galumphing
- lollop
- lumber
- lurch
- reel
- schlep
- shamble
- shuffle
- slog
- squeeze
- stagger
- stumble
- toil
- totter
- trip (sb) up
- waddle
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limp verb (PROCESS/THING)
[ I + adv/prep ] informal to move or develop slowly and with difficulty:
The little boat limped slowly towards the shore.
After limping along for almost two years, the economy is starting to show signs of recovery.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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limpadjective
uk/lɪmp/us/lɪmp/soft and neither firm nor stiff:
a limp lettuce leaf/salad
a limp handshake
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Soft and fluffy
- anneal
- as smooth as silk/a baby's bottom idiom
- feathery
- flaccid
- floaty
- furry
- fuzzy
- gauze
- macerate
- satiny
- shaky
- silky
- smooth
- soft
- soften
- spongy
- squish
- sudsy
- velvet
- workable
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limply
adverb uk/ˈlɪmp.li/us/ˈlɪmp.li/
She lay limply in his arms.
limpness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈlɪmp.nəs/us/ˈlɪmp.nəs/
limpnoun [ S ]
uk/lɪmp/us/lɪmp/a way of walking slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot:
She has a slight limp.
He walks with a limp.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- blunder
- bumble
- doddery
- falter
- galumphing
- lollop
- lumber
- lurch
- reel
- schlep
- shamble
- shuffle
- slog
- squeeze
- stagger
- stumble
- toil
- totter
- trip (sb) up
- waddle
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