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limped

verb

past tense of limp
1
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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2
as in stumbled
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually the damaged boat limped back into port

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3
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 Doyle, who limped through a medical career before turning to a life of crime fiction at the age of twenty-seven, had studied under Bell in the late 1870s, marveling at the doctor’s careful reasoning and indefatigable intuition. — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 Dart limped off the field and was initially treated in the team's medical tent. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026 One arrived in 2001 when a US spy plane limped into Hainan Island with a 24-member crew after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet that killed its pilot. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026 The poor effort was the latest from a squad that mostly limped throughout a critical 15-game stretch against AL Central opponents that manager Derek Shelton identified as a sprint. — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The victim limped into a nearby Target store, where people provided aid until paramedics arrived to transport him to a hospital. — Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026 The Seahawks' quarterback just limped to the blue tent where medical personnel can privately evaluate players' injuries. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026 Darnold limped off the field, was examined in the sideline medical tent and then limped to the locker room. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 The missile killed four sailors and damaged the ship’s equipment, but the crew contained the damage and the Hanit limped home. — Holmes Liao, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limped
  1. shuffled
  2. stumbled
  3. dragged
  4. hobbled
  5. struggled
  6. crawled
  7. halted
  8. trudged
Verb
  • The dispute has caused confusion for over a million potential voters who could be shuffled among districts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Senate Leadership Fund, the main GOP Senate super PAC, also shuffled some of its reservations, removing $900,000 in broadcast buys in the state while adding $400,000 in digital ads.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • But like their European counterparts, American incumbents in the automobile and space industries have also stumbled.
    — Andrew McAfee, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
  • For Wilmot, the worst moment occurred when Sleepy stumbled to the edge of a huge chasm in the mine, turned and began to fall backward to his death.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of stumbled
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  • The sophomore set him down outside the door of the boys varsity locker room, and a 15-year-old grabbed the victim’s ankles, dragged him inside and held him down, the boy told police.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2026
  • My brother is lying on the floor, as if thrown down and dragged there.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of dragged
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  • The Clippers’ legal options are also hobbled by the NBA imposing a $700,000 fine on Leonard, which both Leonard and the NBPA accepted.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • However, Brissett's play tapered off after he was hobbled by a knee injury.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of hobbled
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  • The man's family has struggled to get any information from the hospital about his status or location, Lincoln-Goldfinch said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Last year, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office struggled with contractor Tyler Technologies to get money from county coffers out to districts.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of struggled
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  • Suki, who had been with her new family only a few weeks, had crawled into an opening in an entertainment center cabinet and could not get out.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Every window of every building the bus crawled past opened a severe yearning in me, as though my life here had become abstract or theoretical.
    — Hisham Matar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of crawled
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  • Kennedy boasted about the administration’s moves to downsize the childhood vaccination schedule and reshape a key vaccine advisory board — steps that have since been halted by a judge.
    — Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Kennedy boasted about the administration's moves to downsize the childhood vaccination schedule and reshape a key vaccine advisory board -- steps that have since been halted by a judge.
    — FATIMA HUSSEIN, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of halted
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  • Millions of years after a massive Tyrannosaurus rex trudged through a prehistoric mudflat, paleontologists can finally follow in its footsteps.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Falcons trudged through another difficult afternoon offensively, but unlike Week 1, their defense fell short, too.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of trudged

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“Limped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limped. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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