LIMPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limping mean? 

• LIMPING (noun)
  The noun LIMPING has 1 sense:

1. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

  Familiarity information: LIMPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping

Hypernyms ("limping" is a kind of...):

disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limping"):

intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)

 Context examples 

He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued warm weather even the slight limp left him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Thomas Mugridge, so strangely and pertinaciously clinging to life, was soon limping about again and performing his double duties of cook and cabin-boy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

One early sign of JRA may be limping in the morning.

(Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Alleyne was plodding down the slope upon one side, when he saw an old dame coming towards him upon the other, limping with weariness and leaning heavily upon a stick.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spoke without enthusiasm; and the first man, limping into the milky stream that foamed over the rocks, vouchsafed no reply.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Both Summerlee and Challenger were limping heavily, while I still dragged my feet from weakness after the shock of the morning, and my neck was as stiff as a board from the murderous grip that held it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Limping or lameness.

(Claudication, Food and Drug Administration)

His slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual strength of body and of character.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This tirade against destiny went on for an hour or more, and then he buckled to his work, limping and groaning, and in his eyes a great hatred for all created things.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)