limps
Meaning of limps
verb, 3rd person present
- walk with difficulty, typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot.
he limped heavily as he moved
he limped off during Saturday's game
the conversation limped on for half an hour
- a tendency to limp; a gait impeded by injury or stiffness.
the accident left him with a pronounced limp
late Middle English (in the sense ‘fall short of’): related to obsolete limphalt ‘lame’, and probably of Germanic origin.
Information about limps
- The singular form of limps is: limp.
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Hyphenation of limps
limps
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- limps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
limps synonyms
Meaning walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury:
Meaning lose strength or momentum:
Meaning walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground:
Meaning (of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait:
Meaning move in a feeble or unsteady way:
Meaning move in a feeble or unsteady way, especially because of old age:
Meaning walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall:
Meaning trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall:
Meaning walk with a limp; hobble:
Meaning limping:
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Words that rhyme with limps
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