Meaning & use
Limped
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Walked with difficulty, typically because of an injured or stiff leg or foot.
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He limped off the field after twisting his ankle.
The wounded soldier limped back to camp under cover of darkness.
A note on using this word
Limped can also describe something moving slowly and with difficulty in a figurative sense, as in 'the economy limped along.'
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