0 past simple and past 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:
He had contracted polio as a child, so he limped.
We know now that they limped into port because of nuclear reactor faults.
In court, she limped pathetically and dragged her left leg because she is lame.
But since that day this has not been so, and in 1965, as his employer tells me in a letter, he limped a great deal.
That was fortunate, since both criminal and other regulatory procedures limped on for years.
They also found out about the submarines that have limped into port during the past few months.
But that industry was unable to make the moves it needed to make without political action, and so it limped on.
At the same time the economy has limped along.
