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US
/ˈɫeɪm/
]
VERB
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deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
The accident has crippled her for life
ADJECTIVE
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pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
a lame argument
a feeble excuse -
disabled in the feet or legs
a game leg
a crippled soldier
NOUN
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a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
she wore a gold lame dress - someone who doesn't understand what is going on
How To Use lame In A Sentence
- By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
- Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
- The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
- The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high. Times, Sunday Times
- I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
- Naa, Mr. Penrose, yo 'preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o 'reet that yo' should; but yo 'cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo ', when it's bin my salvation? Lancashire Idylls (1898)
- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
- ‘If you've no wish to sell the charcoals,’ Rachel began, ‘I don't at all blame you.'