Definitions for limp

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IPA: /lɪmp/

Limp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in limp (ilmp).

Definitions for limp

noun

1. a lame movement or gait:

adjective

1. lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame:
2. lacking vitality; weary; tired; fatigued:
3. without firmness, force, energy, etc., as of character:
4. flexible; not stiff or rigid:

verb (used without object)

1. to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
2. to proceed in a lame, faltering, or labored manner:
3. to progress slowly and with great difficulty; make little or no advance:

Origin of limp

1560-70; back formation from obsolete limphault lame; Old English lemphealt limping (see halt²); akin to Middle High German limpfen to limp

Examples for limp

I descended from the bridge with both body and soul like limp rags.

His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp.

But the Mercutian was already in his seat, Joan limp beside him.

To compound it, Rice then treats her limp form with what appears to be cold contempt.

Mrs. Bines, stooping, took the limp and wide-eyed Paul up in her arms.

Who knows whether Manning will wake up daily with a burning neck, or whether Brady will be walking with a limp?

Back in the day, a show could limp along for a season or two before finding its voice.

The charts now featured the likes of limp Bizkit, a rap-metal band whose misogyny was so overt as to be comical.

Clean-shaven and balding, Saleem is in his forties and walks with a limp.

He had begun to limp, and this limp increased with the hours.