# limbed

Pronunciation: say "LIMD" /lɪmd/

## Adjective

1. Used after a descriptive word to show that something has limbs of a particular kind or quality.
   - Simple: Used after a describing word to show what kind of arms and legs a person or animal has.
   - _The long-limbed swimmer crossed the pool in just a few easy strokes._
   - _Critics praised the painter's elegant, loose-limbed figures._
2. Having limbs, such as arms, legs, wings, or similar projecting body parts.
   - Simple: Having arms, legs, wings, or other body parts that stick out and help with moving or grabbing.
   - _The newly described fossil was a fully limbed creature unlike today's snakes._
   - _Limbed vertebrates evolved the ability to walk and climb on land._

## Verb

3. Simple past tense and past participle of limb. — simple past and past participle of limb
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of limb. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _The crew limbed the fallen pine before loading it onto the truck._
   - _She limbed the maple to let more light into the garden._

## Origin

From Middle English ilimed ("having limbs, limbed"), formed from the prefix i- (which made adjectives and past participles) plus lim ("limb, a part of the body") and the adjective-forming suffix -ed. It can be analysed simply as limb + -ed.

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