| 单词 | limber |
| 释义 | limber (once / 4466 pages) 1adjv 2nv Can you dance the hula? Get into crazy yoga positions, or touch your toes? Then you're limber, meaning your body is pretty flexible and able to bend well. Limber generally implies long and graceful limbs. Ballet dancers, it goes without saying, are limber. The term is also used for anything that's capable of being bent easily, such as a piece of metal or, in the metaphorical sense, someone's personality. More often, though, with this particular sense you'll find the word pliant used, implying easily manipulated. Good to be limber, less so to be pliant. WORD FAMILYlimber: limbered, limberer, limbering, limberly, limbers USAGE EXAMPLESIn the era of hip-hop yoga and handstands on Instagram, it’s easy to associate yoga with impossibly lithe and limber young people. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) He felt especially limber when he woke up on Sunday morning before Seattle’s night game against the Carolina Panthers, Rawls’ third since returning from injury. Seattle Times(Dec 04, 2016) Have you at least stayed limber with karaoke? New York Times(Nov 14, 2016) 1 1adj (used of artifacts) easily bent Syn flexible, flexile able to flex; able to bend easily 2adj (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely Syn supple flexible, flexile able to flex; able to bend easily 3adj (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable a limber imagination Syn supple flexible capable of being changed 4v cause to become limber 2The violist limbered her wrists before the concert Hyper warm up cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles 1n a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson Hyper horse-drawn vehicle a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses 2v attach the limber limber a cannon Syn|Hyper limber up attach cause to be attached |
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