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depths of space exist limitless numbers of stars. God's love is
limitless.
limp° v. 1 hobble, stagger, totter, dodder, falter: He limped slowly
along the road.
--n. 2 hobble, hobbling, stagger, staggering, totter,
tottering, dodder, doddering, falter, faltering, claudication,
Slang US gimp: He was easy to recognize at a distance because
of his limp.
limpý adj. 1 flaccid, flabby, lax, slack, soft, drooping, relaxed,
unstarched, unstiffened, soft, flexible, pliable, floppy, loose:
The banners hung limp in the still, sultry air. 2 exhausted,
tired, fatigued, worn out, spent, enervated, wasted,
debilitated, weak, feeble, frail: He felt limp with exhaustion
after the day's hiking. 3 weak, feeble, ineffective,
ineffectual, flimsy, half-hearted, lukewarm, spineless,
thewless, namby-pamby, Colloq wishy-washy Slang gutless: Having
to visit her grandmother seemed a pretty limp excuse to me.
line° n. 1 mark, pencil-mark, pen-mark, rule, score; stroke,
underline, underscore; diagonal, slash, virgule, shilling-mark,
solidus, separatrix, oblique: The lines on this paper are very
faint. Draw a red line under your name. A line separates the
numerator from the denominator. 2 strip, belt, stripe, band,
border, edge, edging: Do you see that line of trees? Put a
heavy black line round the obituary notices. 3 wrinkle, crease,
crinkle, furrow, crow's-foot: He has many lines on his face.
The palmist said I have a long lifeline. 4 border, borderline,
frontier, limit, boundary; demarcation, threshold: We crossed
the line into Italy. I don't mind cooking dinner, but I draw the
line at washing the dishes. There is a fine line between genius
and insanity. 5 outline, silhouette, contour, figure, profile:
The line of the skirt is too straight. 6 row, rank, column,
file, train, parade, cortege or cortŠge, procession, Brit queue,
Colloq Brit crocodile, tailback: I stood in line for six hours
for tickets. The line wound all the way round the block. 7
field, area, activity, forte, speciality or chiefly US and
Canadian also specialty, specialization, business, profession,
occupation, (line of) work, job, vocation, pursuit, trade,
calling, employment, Colloq racket, game: Saying that he was a
computer programmer, he asked me my line. 8 note, word, card,