Word Meanings - LAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to D. lam, G. lahm,OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect

Additional info about word: LAME

akin to D. lam, G. lahm,OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. "Lame of one leg." Arbuthnot. "Lame in both his feet." 2 Sam. ix. 13. "He fell, and became lame." 2 Sam. iv. 4. 2. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. "A lame endeavor." Barrow. O, most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Lame duck , a person who can not fulfill his contracts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAME)

• Infirm
• Weak
• decrepit
• lame
• unsound
• failing
• irresolute
• feeble
• enfeebled
• maim
• Disable
• cripple
• mar
• mutilate
• mangle
• disfigure

Related words: (words related to LAME)

• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• DISABLEMENT
  Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• FEEBLE
  OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
• MUTILATE
  Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. (more info) 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• DISABLE
  Lacking ability; unable. "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.
• DECREPITNESS
  Decrepitude. Barrow.
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• INFIRMARIAN
  A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
• CRIPPLER
  A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
• MANGLE
  bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln 1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate;
• IRRESOLUTE
  Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res"o*lute*ly, adv. --
• CRIPPLE
  One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• MERCHANDISABLE
  Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• MINGLE-MANGLE
  To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. Udall.