Antonyms for LIMB
lɪmlimb

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1. limbnoun

   one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

2. limb, tree branchnoun

   any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

   Synonyms:
   limb, arm, tree branch, branch

3. limbnoun

   (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

4. limbnoun

   either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip

   "the upper limb of the bow"

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

5. limbnoun

   the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles

   "the limb of the sextant"

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

6. arm, branch, limbnoun

   any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

   "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"

   Synonyms:
   branch, offset, weapon, sleeve, tree branch, leg, weapon system, offshoot, ramification, arm, subdivision, outgrowth, limb

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1. limbnoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, bough

How to use LIMB in a sentence?

1. Ashley Seifert:

   Will we one day be able to regenerate a human digit or even a limb ? Probably, but how long we need to wait is impossible to predict, one step in that direction will be when regenerative biology fully embraces new regenerative models, particularly certain species of mammals. This and comparative studies will help us understand how and why regeneration fails in some contexts and succeeds in others.

2. Kentucky General Counsel Steve Pitt:

   The sooner this case is decided, the sooner the Commonwealth can stop this horrific and barbaric practice of ripping unborn babies limb by limb.

3. Gian Luca Burci:

   WHO has been a bit behind, being cautious rather than precautionary, at times of panic, of a crisis and so on, maybe being more out on a limb — taking a risk — would have been better.

4. Ranjit Steiner:

   There's no value to anybody who can't use this thing, i'm the only one who can really use it. It's customized to fit my limb.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   What I mean to say is no, I don’t want her back, just words hanging like leaves from a tree limb, nothing can bring her back anyway; words wouldn’t build her bit by bit, piece by piece, she’s gone, and there is strength in knowing that. Maybe the longing will ease. Maybe the seconds will lapse into minutes. I’m not Christ – I can’t raise the dead.

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