 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
limping
noun: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
[syn: {lameness}, {gimp}, {gimpiness}, {gameness}, {claudication}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limp \Limp\ (l[i^]mp), verb (used without an object) [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.
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
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