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verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- (intransitive, informal) To limp; to hobble.
- (sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
- (transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
noun
- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
- (informal) A crippled leg.
- (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.
- (BDSM) A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
noun
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- hamper the action or progress of
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To disable; to impede.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
noun
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- proceed slowly or with difficulty
- (intransitive, figurative, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move or proceed irregularly.
- (intransitive, stative) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
- (poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
- (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
adj
noun
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
- A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
- A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
phrase
adj
- Unable to move in certain conditions.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place.
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
- bound by an oath
- confined in the bowels
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- bound by contract
- (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
noun
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
verb
- (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
- (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.
- simple past and past participle of bind
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
verb
noun
- Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).
- An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
- An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
- Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
noun
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (uncountable, linguistics) Ellipsis of language transfer.
- (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- transferring ownership
verb
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- move from one place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- cause to change ownership
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
noun
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
- edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
verb
noun
- someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait
- An unlicensed pilot, casual dock labourer, etc.
- (historical) One who by tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light-horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.
- One who hobbles.
- A small horse.
- A man who tows a canal boat with a rope.
verb
noun
- (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
- A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
- (by extension) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion.
- a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant
adj
noun
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
- disabled in the feet or legs
- (especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
- (colloquial) Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
- (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
- (of a limb, especially a foot or leg) That cannot be moved properly.
noun
- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
- A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
- A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
- (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
verb
adj
verb
verb
noun
- A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
- (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
- A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
- (slang) An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.
- A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
- Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
- (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
- a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking
- anything that serves as an expedient
adj
noun
- (slang) A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.
- (economics) A country which drives the world economy by having a high level of imports, such as the United States.
- (rare) A traction engine.
- (rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
verb
noun
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
verb
noun
noun
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
verb
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
- prevent the action or expression of
- prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- (transitive) To strain again.
- (transitive) To restrict or limit.
- (transitive) To control or keep in check.
noun
- the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
- fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing
- (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
- The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
noun
- someone who moves slowly
- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- A person who, or animal that, plods.
- A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
prefix
- (no longer productive) Moving.
- (no longer productive) To do excessively.
- At, at the suffixed time. Forming an unfixed point in time, rather than a duration.
- (no longer productive) Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.
- Of, as characteristic of the suffixed time period. Forming adverbs and adjectives.
- Current, the current form of the suffixed time. Forming nouns.
- During the suffixed time. Forming adverbs.
- Toward in direction or location.
- Adding, additional in quantity.
- (no longer productive) Completely.
- On (this) time, which is a fixed point in time. Forming adverbs.
noun
- someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
- (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
- (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
- (by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
verb
- deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
- (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
- To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
- (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
- To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
adj
- able to walk about
- relating to or adapted for walking
- Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
- (medicine) Performed on or involving an outpatient.
- Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
- (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
- (medicine) Relating to ambulances.
- (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
- the act of moving forward suddenly
- A predicament or difficult situation.
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- (dialectal) A lift or heave.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- loiter about, with no apparent aim
- defeat by a lurch
- move slowly and unsteadily
- move abruptly
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
- (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
- (dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
- (dialectal, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
noun
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (uncountable, linguistics) Ellipsis of language transfer.
- (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- transferring ownership
verb
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- move from one place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- cause to change ownership
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
noun
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
- edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
verb
noun
- someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait
- An unlicensed pilot, casual dock labourer, etc.
- (historical) One who by tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light-horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.
- One who hobbles.
- A small horse.
- A man who tows a canal boat with a rope.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- (intransitive, informal) To limp; to hobble.
- (sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
- (transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
noun
- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
- (informal) A crippled leg.
- (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.
- (BDSM) A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
noun
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
noun
- the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
- fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing
- (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
- The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
noun
- someone who moves slowly
- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- A person who, or animal that, plods.
- A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
noun
- someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
- (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
- (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
- (by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
verb
- deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
- (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
- To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
- (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
- To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
- the act of moving forward suddenly
- A predicament or difficult situation.
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- (dialectal) A lift or heave.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- loiter about, with no apparent aim
- defeat by a lurch
- move slowly and unsteadily
- move abruptly
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
- (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
- (dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
- (dialectal, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- (intransitive, informal) To limp; to hobble.
- (sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
- (transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
noun
- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
- (informal) A crippled leg.
- (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.
- (BDSM) A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
noun
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- hamper the action or progress of
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To disable; to impede.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
noun
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
verb
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- proceed slowly or with difficulty
- (intransitive, figurative, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move or proceed irregularly.
- (intransitive, stative) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
- (poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
- (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
adj
noun
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
- A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
- A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
phrase
verb
noun
- Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).
- An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
- An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
- Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
verb
noun
- (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
- A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
- (by extension) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion.
- a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant
verb
noun
- A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
- (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
- A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
- (slang) An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.
- A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
- Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
- (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
- a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking
- anything that serves as an expedient
verb
noun
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
verb
noun
verb
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
- prevent the action or expression of
- prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- (transitive) To strain again.
- (transitive) To restrict or limit.
- (transitive) To control or keep in check.
adj
- Unable to move in certain conditions.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place.
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
- bound by an oath
- confined in the bowels
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- bound by contract
- (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
noun
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
verb
- (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
- (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.
- simple past and past participle of bind
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
adj
noun
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
- disabled in the feet or legs
- (especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
- (colloquial) Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
- (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
- (of a limb, especially a foot or leg) That cannot be moved properly.
noun
- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
- A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
- A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
- (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
verb
adj
verb
adj
noun
- (slang) A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.
- (economics) A country which drives the world economy by having a high level of imports, such as the United States.
- (rare) A traction engine.
- (rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
adj
- able to walk about
- relating to or adapted for walking
- Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
- (medicine) Performed on or involving an outpatient.
- Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
- (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
- (medicine) Relating to ambulances.
- (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.