limps

Meaning of limps

verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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
plural noun
  1. 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:

hobble

Meaning lose strength or momentum:

falter

Meaning walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground:

shuffle

Meaning (of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait:

shamble

Meaning move in a feeble or unsteady way:

totter

Meaning move in a feeble or unsteady way, especially because of old age:

dodder

Meaning walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall:

stagger

Meaning trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall:

stumble

Meaning walk with a limp; hobble:

hirple

Meaning limping:

claudication

Anagrams of limps

plims

Words that rhyme with limps

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