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Definition of lame

"lame" in the noun sense

1. square, lame

someone who doesn't understand what is going on

2. lame

a fabric interwoven with threads of metal

"she wore a gold lame dress"

"lame" in the verb sense

1. cripple, lame

deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

"The accident has crippled her for life"

"lame" in the adjective sense

1. feeble, lame

pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

"a feeble excuse"

"a lame argument"

2. crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game

disabled in the feet or legs

"a crippled soldier"

"a game leg"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for lame

Progress is lame. [ Sainte-Beuve ]

Lame hares are ill to help. [ Proverb ]

The lame tongue gets nothing. [ Proverb ]

As lame as St. Giles Cripplegate. [ Proverb ]

Punishment is lame, but it comes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Help the lame dog over the stile. [ Proverb ]

I now see which leg you are lame of. [ Proverb ]

O most lame and impotent conclusion! [ William Shakespeare ]

The lame post brings the truest news. [ Proverb ]

A lame traveller should get out betimes. [ Proverb ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you mock the lame, you will go so yourself in time. [ Proverb ]

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. [ Latin Proverb ]

It is a true proverb that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt. [ Plutarch ]

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]

You pity a man who is lame or blind; but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. [ Sydney Smith ]

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian darkness. [ Bartholin ]

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. [ Whately ]

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lame in Scrabble®

The word lame is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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lame in Words With Friends™

The word lame is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence lame

Words that start with lame (37 words)

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Words with lame in them (90 words)

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Words that end with lame (9 words)

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Word Growth involving lame

Shorter words in lame

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Longer words containing lame

blame blameable unblameable unblameableness

blame blamed reblamed

blame blamed unblamed

blame blameless blamelessly

blame blameless blamelessness

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blame blameworthiest

blame blameworthiness unblameworthiness

blame blameworthy nonblameworthy

blame blameworthy unblameworthy

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blame reblame reblames

blame unblameably

cyclamen cyclamens

flame aflame

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flame enflame enflames

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flame flamefish flamefishes

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flame flameout flameouts

flame flameproof flameproofed

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flame flamers

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galvanostalametry

lamebrain lamebrained

lamebrain lamebrains

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lamella lamellaphone lamellaphones

lamella lamellar bilamellar

lamella lamellar multilamellar

lamella lamellar nonfibrolamellar

lamella lamellar nonlamellar

lamella lamellate bilamellate bilamellated

lamella lamellate lamellated bilamellated

lamella lamellate lamellated multilamellated

lamella lamellate multilamellate multilamellated

lamella lamellation

lamellibranch eulamellibranch

lamellibranch lamellibranchiate

lamellibranch lamellibranchs

lamellibranch pseudolamellibranch

lamelliform

lamellophone lamellophones

lamely

lameness

lament filament filamentary nonfilamentary

lament filament filamentlike

lament filament filamentoid filamentoids

lament filament filamentose

lament filament filamentous nonfilamentous

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lament filament microfilament microfilaments

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lament filament nonfilament nonfilamentary

lament filament nonfilament nonfilamented

lament filament nonfilament nonfilamentous

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lament lamented lamentedly

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lament lamented unlamented

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lament lamenting lamentingly

lament lamenting lamentings

lament lamenting unlamenting

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lamer bedlamer bedlamers

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lames lamest

multilamellous

salame

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