limb

CEFRC1

/lɪm/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An arm, leg, or wing of a person or animal.

  2. 02

    noun

    A large branch growing from a tree trunk.

Examples

  • I'm not going out on a limb for you because you never helped me before.

  • Tom Skeleton was shaking and trembling in every limb.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A branch of a tree.

  2. The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

  3. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

More examples

In context

  • Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

  • They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

  • the solar limb

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.