laming

present participle of lame

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for laming
Verb
  • Thomas’ absence has been crippling for the Giants in recent years.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • More importantly, if just one lock were disabled or destroyed, the passage from east to west would be essentially inoperable, crippling the United States and its military defenses.
    Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To write one’s way out of the incapacitating dependence of daughterhood into autonomy means shedding the unquestioning fidelity of a child.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This is not some bloodthirsty pirate contempt with conquering a pleasure planet like everyone thought, but a calculative master manipulator and tactician who knew the value of Kalgan and used it to acquire a larger prize — incapacitating the Empire’s attack forces.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • A student who authorities say opened fire at his Colorado high school, wounding two classmates and then turning the gun on himself, has died, according to the local sheriff's office.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Police say Reed then opened fire in the parking lot, killing Jones, wounding a 23-year-old Dallas man and also shooting at off-duty officers who were working at the business.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The study involved 198 adults with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a disabling form of anxiety that affects about 1 in 10 people over the course of a year.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For people in their retirement years, ages 65 to 74, nearly one in four experiences disabling hearing loss.
    Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Last week, a 23-year-old opened fire outside a church at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 19 other people before dying by suicide.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Parollee Dawain Hopson lived a free life for about five weeks before landing back behind bars, this time for allegedly stabbing two people to death at a Detroit pool party over the summer and injuring two others with the same knife.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Horror deals with the fear of violence, maiming, being haunted by things.
    Karim Kattan, The Dial, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Avoid using excessive water to prevent damaging the floors.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Laming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laming. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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