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verb

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as in to shuffle
to walk while favoring one leg she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler

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as in to drag
to move slowly we'll have to stop limping if we are ever going to make our destination in time

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Recent Examples of limp
Adjective
During a house fire last year, crews were slowed in their response by mechanical trouble on a truck that caused its hose to go limp, Mr. Munoz said. Mike Baker, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025 The mise-en-scene towards the end feels clumsy, even a bit limp, and the plotting becomes forced. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
Verb
While Bailey and Harper continue to fare well against Big Ten defenses, Rutgers has limped to a 12-13 overall record and a 5-9 mark in the conference because of injuries and illness. Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2025 But before there was even a whiff of smoke from the grill, Arsenal’s plans went up in flames as Kai Havertz limped out of Monday’s training session with a season-ending hamstring tear. Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for limp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limp
Adjective
  • The V-neck long-sleeve was held close by three floppy orange flower buttons.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The eldest, their 10-year-old daughter, has a very messy floppy bun on the top of her head.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the skincare world, the best retinol serums are put on a pedestal, touted for their ability to breathe new life into tired, aging skin.
    Denise Primbet, Glamour, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Research has also found long-term exposure can result in anemia, which can leave patients feeling weak and tired; a low white blood cell count, which debilitates the immune system; and a low platelet count, which leads to excessive bleeding and bruising.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • That created a quick and competitive environment that eliminated a lot of the listless play that has plagued All-Star weekend over the past decade.
    Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Rebecca, the listless protagonist of Katarina Zhu’s feature debut Bunnylovr, wears loneliness like an oversized coat.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • For all of the conversation late last year analyzing how quickly Sporting KC might be able to shuffle the chairs — or even Vermes praising the way his team played Wednesday — a swap at striker, a swap in the mentality at striker, transcends everything else.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The plan involved shuffling around existing crew assignments to free up two of the four seats on a SpaceX capsule that launched in late September, so that Wilmore and Williams could occupy the seats on the return trip.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Skype won attention in the 2000s for giving people a way to talk without paying the phone company, but stumbled in the mobile era and didn’t enjoy a major resurgence during the pandemic.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Those concerns came to a head during Biden's debate against now-President Donald Trump in June, when Biden sounded hoarse and appeared to stumble through several answers.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The most illuminated of them, hatless and dragging, is followed by a marginally more active figure, the only one to acknowledge the viewer’s presence.
    Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • But the 2013 peace process soon collapsed as tensions reignited, dragging Turkey and the PKK back into a bloody war and ending a two-year ceasefire.
    Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Over time, this pattern can leave you emotionally exhausted and constantly walking on eggshells to prevent upsetting them.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Hackman was busy in the 1970s — his work also included the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and a French Connection sequel — and the regimen left him exhausted.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Salesforce shares fell in extended trading Wednesday on mixed quarterly results and weak guidance.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • There aren’t enough affordable ones and the charging infrastructure is weak.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Limp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limp. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.

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