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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
limp
limp [limp limps limped limping] adjective, verb, noun BrE [lɪmp] NAmE [lɪmp]
adjective
1. lacking strength or energy
•His hand went limp and the knife clattered to the ground.
•She felt limp and exhausted.
2. not stiff or firm
•The hat had become limp and shapeless.
Word Origin:
n. and v. late Middle English ‘fall short of’ limphalt ‘lame’ Germanic adj. early 18th cent. ↑limp ‘hanging loose’
Example Bank:
•Her hair looked limp and lifeless.
•His arm hung limp at his side.
Derived Word: ↑limply
verb
1. intransitive to walk slowly or with difficulty because one leg is injured
•She had twisted her ankle and was limping.
•+ adv./prep. Matt limped painfully off the field.
2. intransitive + adv./prep. to move slowly or with difficulty after being damaged
•The plane limped back to the airport.
• (figurative)The government was limping along in its usual way.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
n. and v. late Middle English ‘fall short of’ limphalt ‘lame’ Germanic adj. early 18th cent. ↑limp ‘hanging loose’
Example Bank:
•He had hurt his leg and was limping badly.
•He limped away from his car.
•She limped slowly to the door.
•By the time we got back home she was limping badly.
•He had a sprained ankle and was limping.
•He was still limping slightly from his knee injury.
•Joe limped painfully off the field.
noun usually singular
a way of walking in which one leg is used less than normal because it is injured or stiff
•to walk with a slight/pronounced limp
Word Origin:
n. and v. late Middle English ‘fall short of’ limphalt ‘lame’ Germanic adj. early 18th cent. ↑limp ‘hanging loose’
Example Bank:
•The accident had left him with a slight limp.
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