Unlimb

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove a limb or limbs from. transitive

    "[…] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]"

Example

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"[…] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]"

Etymology

From un- + limb.

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