0 present participle of limp
1 to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot:
2 to move or develop slowly and with difficulty:
This results in a so-called "limping marriage", where the parties are free to remarry civilly, but not religiously.
Now we are limping up the fire escape, trying to get in through the seventh storey window.
Liberals, not alone, bitterly regret that this absurd, one-legged monster is limping into another financial year.
Young children can surely increase their limping to obtain sympathy after an injury, or decrease it when faced with an unsympathetic audience.
His preliminary assessment is that this has produced a 'limping' rule of law, since it was imposed from above, unaccompanied by any changes in social values especially of the elites.
Panksepp's example of the limping child could, of course, concern a child with or without pain who seeks to gain attention and sympathy.
This strategy realized limping gait, and despite the back-and-forth hopping, there was a net forward motion.
Either the limping reflects the effects of internally experienced pain on the central motor apparatus, or simply damaged peripheral structural supports.
