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 Last year at world championships, Ingebrigtsen faltered in a preliminary heat while Kerr pulled up lame and limped into the finish in a final won by Issac Nader of Portugal. — ABC News, 18 July 2026 Getty Images The MLB best home run bets limped into the All-Star break with four incorrect home run props in the final two articles. — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 After a horse kicked and injured his paw, Smoke limped to a nearby drugstore for help before heading back to the firehouse. — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 15 July 2026 The hits keep coming for France as key defender William Saliba limped off the pitch in the 31st minute. — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026 The striker scored and registered an assist against Morocco but limped off the pitch in the 77th minute. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 July 2026 The super athletic forward who thrilled fans with his highlight-reel dunks last season took a hard landing on one wild drive during the first half and limped toward the bench. — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 The Blue Devils, having finally lost Laettner, Hurley and Hill, limped to a 4-15 record under interim coach Pete Gaudet, finishing with a school-record 18 losses and missing the NCAA Tournament. — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 26 June 2026 Tunisia holding its breath Central midfielder Hannibal Mejbri, arguably Tunisia’s best player, limped off the field during a warm-up game against Austria, according to the Score. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026

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Bulldozers shuffled right through the rubble to make roads that cut Gaza into separate sections.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
And before several services shuffled their rankings earlier this week, no QB ranked inside the top 20.

— Grace Raynor, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of shuffled

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But if the numbers hold up, Orange County may have stumbled onto something much bigger than baseball.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026
After departing Ecuador en route to El Segundo, members of the crew stumbled upon an unexpected find inside the ship’s garbage — trash bags filled with cocaine, 430 pounds of it.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

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Scardovari, Italy — As the sun was rising, two fisherwomen dragged their boat through the Scardovari lagoon in northeastern Italy.

— Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
The animation is often rudimentary, particularly in outer-space scenes that are effectively a cut-out of a starship being dragged across a stellar background.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of dragged

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The former Iowa standout hobbled back on defense and was subbed out for the rest of the first half shortly after.

— Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
The shortage has forced the FAA to stop or delay traffic several times, and not only during the partial government shutdown that hobbled many control facilities across the country.

— Joel Rose, NPR, 1 July 2026

Definition of hobbled

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The 17 passengers and crew who lived told investigators everyone survived the landing, but many passengers struggled to locate life vests and the crew had a difficult time pulling out life rafts.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Brayden Burries, Bucks While most of the vaunted crop of rookie guards from the NCAA ranks struggled, Burries was a glaring exception.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Definition of struggled

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Hull testified that Robinson later returned in different clothing, walking with a limp, rolled onto the roof of a building on campus and crawled to the edge of the rooftop around the time the shot was fired.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Their father dismounted, went down on foot, climbed the fence his son had crawled under.

— Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of crawled

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In 2010, the TOM study (Testosterone in Older Men with Mobility Limitations) was halted early due to a higher incidence of major cardiac events (including heart attacks and strokes) in those taking testosterone replacement therapy.

— Alexander P. Cole, STAT, 18 July 2026
The collapse of the ceasefire and interim agreement has led to days of strikes and counterstrikes across the region, with traffic in the crucial waterway once again largely halted as the two sides battle over it.

— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 17 July 2026

Definition of halted

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In the bowels of Huntsman Arena, more than an hour after his second NBA Summer League appearance, Darryn Peterson trudged slowly into the media room at the University of Utah, eased into a chair and prepared to answer questions from the media.

— Tony Jones, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Claus trudged to the monitor, watched the foul on an agonizing loop and promptly handed Balogun a red card.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 July 2026

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