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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limped
  1. shuffled
  2. stumbled
  3. dragged
  4. hobbled
  5. struggled
  6. crawled
  7. halted
  8. trudged
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  • Findings of no effect tend to either be shuffled off to low-profile journals or left behind as unpublished lab lore.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
Definition of dragged
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  • Now hobbled in Washington, shedding supporters, and showing little to no influence in voting booths, is MAHA on its deathbed?
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Paxton has been hobbled by a series of scandals, but has benefited from a massive influx of cash from Elon Musk.
    — Justin Papp,Caleigh Keating,Garrett Downs,Kevin Breuninger,Dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of hobbled
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  • Yet when asked to move beyond answering questions to framing their own, many struggled.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
  • But Lloyd, who had long struggled with mental health issues, was also suffering from drug addiction, and conflicts with Verlaine led to the band’s breakup.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of struggled
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  • This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 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
Definition of trudged

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“Limped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limped. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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