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Limber up

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Verb
  1. 1
    To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise. intransitive

    "The swimmer limbered up for a few minutes before the final."

  2. 2
    make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity wordnet
  3. 3
    To make (someone or something) more limber or flexible. transitive

    "You need to limber up your wits before the exam."

  4. 4
    attach the limber wordnet
  5. 5
    To prepare; to make oneself ready. figuratively, intransitive

    "As politicians limber up for European elections in the summer of 2019, the biggest party grouping in the European parliament, the European People’s party, is desperately clinging on to Orbán’s Fidesz party, and has even been making furtive overtures to Poland’s PiS, for fear of the Orbvini camp forming a new alliance to compete with it."

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  1. 6
    To attach a limber.

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