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limb

[lim] / lɪm /


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Going faster seemed impossible but still I managed it, feeling a distracted relief at the breeze streaming over my sweating limbs.

From Literature

She remembers how the Tobagan doctors asked if she could sign a form for her husband's limbs to be removed if necessary - then doctors realised he should be taken off the island.

From BBC

“Yesterday’s icy clear water was now warm and thick with black mud and tree limbs. Even so it felt good on my burned hands,” said Dan.

From Literature

I scurry to my clothes, pulling them on over wet limbs.

From Literature

Not long after, she went through more procedures: one to amputate her damaged limb and another to cut through her neck to retrieve a fishing hook that had migrated to tissue outside the esophagus.

From Los Angeles Times