Limping

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Limp \Limp\ (l[i^]mp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Limped} (l[i^]mt;
     215); p. pr. & vb. n. {Limping}.] [Cf. AS. lemphealt lame,
     OHG. limphen to limp, be weak; perh. akin to E. lame, or to
     limp, a [root]120.]
     To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  limping
       n : disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
           [syn: {lameness}, {gimp}, {gimpiness}, {gameness}, {claudication}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "limping":
     ambling, bad, castrated, cautious, circumspect, claudicant,
     crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crippled, deliberate,
     disabled, easy, emasculated, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging,
     game, gentle, gradual, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped,
     hobbled, hobbling, idle, incapacitated, indolent, lame, languid,
     languorous, lazy, leisurely, lumbering, maimed, moderate, poking,
     poky, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, shuffling, slack, slothful,
     slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
     slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
     slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
     snail-paced, snaillike, spavined, staggering, strolling, tentative,
     toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried,
     waddling