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LIMPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
Synonyms:
claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("limping" is a kind of...):
disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limping"):
intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb limp
Context examples:
Sol-leks was limping, and Dub was suffering from a wrenched shoulder-blade.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pike, the malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully feigned a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared—more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
They were limping and staggering.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim feel of his feet.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
