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 Wrobleski limped away, finally able to react to the pain where the ball hit him. —

Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 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 Earlier in the game, Knicks guard Jalen Brunson limped to the locker room after Spurs forward Harrison Barnes was pushed into his right knee. —

Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2026 The Dutch West India Company limped along in gradual decline before being dissolved in 1794. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 June 2026 His system ran aground and, as defending champions, Liverpool limped into fifth place last month. —

Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 June 2026 The Twins limped into what is a big series against a division rival at Target Field on Monday, losers of five straight and minus a pair of starting pitchers — Bailey Ober and Simeon Woods Richardson. —

John Shipley, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026 Gilgeous-Alexander finished with a game-high 35 points and nine assists but wasn’t enough to carry a Thunder team that limped to the finish line, dealing with fatigue and a slew of injuries. —

Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 31 May 2026 George landed awkwardly and limped to the dugout in obvious pain, slamming his helmet to the ground. —

Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 May 2026

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In the years that followed, American landscape painting was shuffled off to storage to make room for modernism, and paintings like Church’s, with their glassy finishes and profuse detail, came to seem the embodiment of fuddy-duddy.

— Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
The singer-songwriter shuffled songs on her phone, not having any idea what might pop up.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026