Tra từ limp - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a limp handshake (=weak – used to show disapproval)
▪ I don't trust a man with a limp handshake.
limp/wilted (=lettuce that is not fresh and crisp)
▪ The lettuce was all wilted.
▪ There was nothing in the fridge except a rather limp lettuce.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
body
▪ Isabel wrenched her gaze from the limp body at her feet.
▪ There sat Hercules laughing, in each hand a long limp body.
▪ The limp body collapsed backwards, the base of Zhukov's skull striking the edge of the sink with a vicious crack.
▪ It took just ten seconds to transfer the limp bodies.
▪ He ordered his men to take down the limp body and remove the handcuffs.
▪ The man carried the limp body to where the Saab was parked.
▪ This is a cat with a limp body that genetically lacks the usual defensive reactions of felines.
hand
▪ She held a purse in her limp hand.
▪ He studies the little dark face and massages a limp hand until the fingers curl around his own.
▪ He stood up, waving a long, limp hand.
▪ He picked up Doyle's limp hand and felt for a pulse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The green beans were limp from overcooking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I felt limp, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
▪ It was like a captain blowing against his own limp sails.
▪ Others suddenly developed a nosebleed and became limp, pale and lethargic.
▪ The starch in her collar had gone limp with the soaking.
▪ There sat Hercules laughing, in each hand a long limp body.
▪ This will go some way towards relieving the anxiety of those who felt that the fine and reprimands were far too limp.
▪ Three gold-bladed fans in the ceiling stirred limp currents into the air.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I noticed that one of the horses was limping, and called for the vet.
▪ She limped painfully over to a chair and sat down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although its voluntary recruits diminished, the order had managed to limp on for nearly two centuries under Ixmarity's watchful eye.
▪ As soon as he limped through the doorway she called to the owner to make more coffee.
▪ Bladder clenched, Thérèse limped down the drive behind her silent father.
▪ Fiver and Pipkin, limping behind the others, and conspicuously under-sized and tired, were being attacked by the crow.
▪ The hours until lunchtime limped past.
▪ When he returned, he was limping from the beating he had received during the interrogation.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
slight
▪ I noticed he had a slight limp.
▪ Noonan walked with a slight limp.
▪ She was also dimly aware of his powerful military presence and immaculate clothes, and a slight, well-disguised limp.
▪ Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp.
▪ His mind concentrated itself on Tolby's footsteps which were slightly uneven, as if the solicitor had a slight limp.
▪ The only sign of his accident is that he walks with a slight limp.
▪ She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp.
VERB
walk
▪ A thin man in army uniform came in, walking with a limp.
▪ He was old and almost bald and he walked with a limp, but his eyes were very bright and blue.
▪ The only sign of his accident is that he walks with a slight limp.
▪ Once they pushed him off a cliff, breaking his leg, and he walks with a limp to this day.
▪ Because they were walking downhill her limp was making her awkward and she linked arms with him to keep her balance.
▪ Two years later, he was shot again and still walks with a limp from the wound to his right ankle.
▪ Noonan walked with a slight limp.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Josie walked with a slight limp.
▪ Young had a slight limp.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Able to move around with limp.
▪ Miguel stared at the slick street as Spider slinked off with that streetwise limp.
▪ Once they pushed him off a cliff, breaking his leg, and he walks with a limp to this day.

limp

I. limp¹ /lɪmp/ adjective
not firm or strong:
　 ▪ a limp handshake
　 ▪ His body suddenly went limp and he fell down on the floor.

—limply adverb:
　 ▪ His arms were hanging limply.

—limpness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

II. limp² verb [INTRANSITIVE]
1. to walk slowly and with difficulty because one leg is hurt or injured:
　 ▪ Moreno limped off the field with a foot injury.

2. [ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
if a ship or aircraft limps somewhere, it goes there slowly, because it has been damaged
limp into
　 ▪ The damaged liner limped into New York.
limp along phrasal verb
if a company, project etc limps along, it is not successful:
　 ▪ The team is limping along in fifth place.
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THESAURUS
to walk with difficulty
▪limp to walk with difficulty because one leg hurts, so that you put most of your weight on the other leg :
　 ▪ Jake was limping because of the injury to his knee.
▪stagger to walk or move unsteadily, almost falling over, especially because you are drunk or have been injured :
　 ▪ They finally staggered back to the hotel at 4 o'clock in the morning.
　 ▪ He hit her and she staggered and fell.
▪hobble to walk with difficulty in a slow and unsteady way because your legs or feet hurt or have been injured :
　 ▪ My new shoes were so painful I could only hobble along.
　 ▪ She hobbled out to the car on crutches.

III. limp³ noun [COUNTABLE]
the way someone walks when they are limping:
　 ▪ Young walked with a slight limp.