LIMPED Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

limped

verb

past tense of limp

as in shuffled

to walk while favoring one leg she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler

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as in stumbled

to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually the damaged boat limped back into port

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as in dragged

to move slowly we'll have to stop limping if we are ever going to make our destination in time

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Recent Examples of limped Running back Jeremy McNichols limped to the locker room in the second half with a left foot injury. — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026 Willis Reed once limped onto the court to help win an NBA championship. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026 Dëmin limped to the locker room late in the second quarter and was ruled out with a right-leg contusion. — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026 And despite decades of efforts to banish it to history, the language has limped on, simply refusing to die. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2026 Panthers forward Eetu Luostarinen limped to the locker room midway through the second period after getting hit by a shot but quickly returned. — Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 Hampered by a hip injury, Payne limped through only a third of his allotted distance. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 The Associated Press IZMIT, Turkey -- IZMIT, Turkey (AP) — Kylian Mbappé limped off moments after opening the scoring for France against Turkey in the Nations League on Friday. — ABC News, 25 Sep. 2026 Then came Week 2, when Brooks took his final snap in the second half and limped to the locker room, towel over his head, and proceeded to watch the rest of the game on the sidelines. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 Sep. 2026

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Findings of no effect tend to either be shuffled off to low-profile journals or left behind as unpublished lab lore.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
It’s been more than a year since Ozzy Osbourne shuffled off this mortal coil.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of shuffled

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Johnson had nothing but space, and stumbled to make one move before reaching the end zone for his first career touchdown.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
An amateur historian has stumbled upon a provocative clue to the enduring mystery of what became of a notorious pirate who raided a royal Indian treasure ship centuries ago, implicating a co-conspirator whose name is familiar to many New Yorkers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of stumbled

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The Euphemism Problem In April 2017, a passenger was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago.

— Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
The ship dragged its anchor along the seabed for about 80 miles, damaging two telecommunications cables, according to a court statement.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

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Ukraine’s defenses have been hobbled in recent days by unexplained failures of the Starlink and Starshield satellite systems that are a crucial tool to protect civilians from incoming Russian missiles and drone attacks.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Reagan hobbled to a seat in the Yellow Oval Room, started to sit down and fell the rest of the way, collapsing into his chair.

— Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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Giamanco crawled in through a shot-out window, reached the special education classroom and reracked his firearm in preparation for a deadly confrontation.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
In May 2025, after Williams shut off the water in a cell, 10 inmates removed a toilet, crawled through a gap in the wall and scaled a fence out of the jail.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of crawled

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Musk halted production of his two most expensive models, the Model S and Model X, at that plant to make room for production of the human robots, Optimus, the company intends to sell.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
In Broward, technical glitches temporarily halted voting minutes after polls opened.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of halted

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Some poor families trudged from one village to another, falling victim to violence, hunger and cold.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
And, like any good party, someone had a notion that the others loved — and so the players trudged back onto the field to have a team photo taken in front of the Crown Vision board still displaying a congratulatory message to the White Sox.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

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