Synonyms for limping
limp·ing

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1. lameness, limping, gimp, gimpiness, gameness, claudicationnoun

   disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

   Synonyms:
   gimp, gimpiness, claudication, lameness, gameness

Matched Categories

1. • Disability Of Walking

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How to use limping in a sentence?

1. Bruce Bennett:

   I'm limping along in life.

2. Michael Moller:

   The Secretary-General has launched a reform process that is limping, but it's limping precisely because of the micromanagement by member states that has reached gigantic proportions and is acting as a massive brake on any kind of forward imaginative and innovative movement of the organization.

3. Joe Maddon:

   I saw nothing. I looked up and he was limping to the third base bag, it was kind of innocuous and I had no idea why. It was hurting him pretty good.

4. Nick North:

   They kept saying, 'You need to go back out there,' even though they knew I wasn't 100 percent, i'd literally be limping while running, and you could see it. ... They were like, if you can't do this, you're going to have to leave. You can't play here. We're going to take your scholarship.

5. Serb Jankovic:

   It's never nice to end a match in that way, in the second set, she started limping and I saw that she had some problem.