limp

limp
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v
1. hobble, hitch, walk lamely; totter, dodder, toddle, stagger, seesaw, move unsteadily, teeter; falter, halt, pause, hesitate; shuffle, shamble, drag one's feet.
2. crawl, creep, inch, drag, move slowly.
n
3. hobble, hitch, jerk, claudication, uneven gait, Sl. gimp, tottering, staggering, doddering, shamble, halting, shuffle; lameness, infirmity, crippled leg, talipes, clubfoot.
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adj
1. flaccid, flabby, soft, quaggy, unfirm, unfit, Inf. out of shape; slack, lax, unstiff, unstiffened, unstarched, starchless, All Dial. limpsy, limpsey, limsy.
2. tired, fatigued, lethargic, weary, boneweary, worn, worn-out, exhausted, wasted, sapless, unenergetic, spent, played out, effete; weak, feeble, enfeebled, frail, puny, infirm, debilitated, shaky, sickly, anemic, failing, decrepit, lame, unsteady, unstable.
3. flimsy, supple, flexile, flexible, pliable, pliant, malleable, tractable, ductile, plastic; yielding, submissive, giving in, unresisting, irresolute, unsteadfast, unstaunch, half-hearted, lukewarm; characterless, spineless, nerveless, marrowless, sinewless, pithless, namby-pamby, Sl. gutless; weak-kneed, wishy-washy, chicken-hearted, lily-livered, timid, timorous, Sl. chicken, Sl. candy-assed; impotent, powerless, ineffective, strengthless, insipid, jejune, senile, anile, old-womanish.

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