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How to pronounce limber in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms supple
Type Words
Synonyms supple


a limber imagination.
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Synonyms limber up
Type of attach


limber a cannon.
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Type of horse-drawn vehicle
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Type of warm up


The violist limbered her wrists before the concert.
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Examples of limber

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I don't feel it requires any real strenuous regimen to stay limber and flexible.
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Manson sounds just as strong and limber as ever, at turns menacing and sultry.
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It doesn't matter if they can carry a tune or have especially limber fingers.
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The brass sounded secure, winds limber and lithe and the strings warm and colorful.
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She is so limber, so absurdly flexible, they should name a pretzel after her.
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He looked stiff rather than limber and all but shackled to the smallish desk.
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Designers need a little creative silliness to keep their imaginations limber.
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Some say it's because his family intend to plant it in a limber-legged white robot.
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Dancers stretch regularly during rehearsals to avoid injury and stay limber.
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More examples
  • A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson
  • Attach the limber; "limber a cannon"
  • (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
  • (used of artifacts) easily bent
  • Cause to become limber; "The violist limbered her wrists before the concert"
  • (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
  • (limbers) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well
  • (Limbers) A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, allowing it to be towed. A caisson is a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition. It is generally towed by a limber,
  • The front part of the (formerly horse-drawn) carriage for a field gun, to which the TRAILs ("outrigger legs") of the gun are attached; being a type of carrier or trailer for hauling a cannon, including a "limber box" (CAISSON) of ready ammunition. ...