Definitions for limbs

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limbs limb

Spelling: [lim]

IPA: /lɪm/

Limbs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in limbs (bilms).

Definitions for limbs

noun

1. a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
2. a large or main branch of a tree.
3. a projecting part or member:
4. a person or thing regarded as a part, member, branch, offshoot, or scion of something:
5. Archery. the upper or lower part of a bow.
6. Informal. a mischievous child, imp, or young scamp.
7. Astronomy. the edge of the disk of the sun, a moon, or a planet.
8. the graduated edge of a quadrant or similar instrument.
9. Botany. the upper spreading part of a gamopetalous corolla. the expanded portion of a petal, sepal, or leaf.

Idioms

1. out on a limb, in a dangerous or compromising situation; vulnerable:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut the limbs from (a felled tree).

Origin of limbs

before 900; Middle English, Old English lim; akin to Old Norse lim foliage, limr limb, līmi rod, Latin līmus aslant, līmen threshold

Examples for limbs

It was as if Martin, himself, were being torn limb from limb.

Mating with a cousin or brother is safer than risking life and limb to mate with an outsider.

“We can do anything here from open heart surgery to limb amputations,” he says.

I worked like a beaver to get it out, and yet the disease appeared to creep from limb to limb of the study before me.

They were leisurely enough for Mr Verloc to recognise the limb and the weapon.

If wrong had chanced to her, I would have rent you where you stand, limb from limb.

Yet if I had caught him again I would have strung him up to the first limb.

So now, keeping all that in mind, how many Afghans do you think risked life and limb to cast their ballot?

Some might want to be the star, others to direct, but it takes a special breed to want to risk life and limb as a stuntman.

Failing in that, it generally shears off a limb before it sheers away.