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Synonyms for hobble

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for hobble

to walk in a lame way

to restrict the activity or free movement of

something that physically confines the legs or arms

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Synonyms for hobble

a shackle for the ankles or feet

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the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

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walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury

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hamper the action or progress of

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strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison

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At the same time, a shortage of experimentally determined parameters hobbles on-paper solutions, he adds.
In 66, a fifties teen piece with a comic-strip blow-up (by Santo Loquasto) of the famous highway, an old-timer hobbles among the kids; then, in a comic vignette Charles Weidman would have liked, tosses away his cane and becomes a soft-shoe dancing youth.
The future has lost its raison d'etre; the present is ill and hobbles like a wounded beast, and the past, the past that Guzman describes in his archaeological model of Tollund Man and Elling Woman (individuals from the Roman iron age, preserved in a perfect state in the peat bogs of northern Europe until their discovery in 1960), is covered, like a ragpicker, with strips and more strips of Letraset.
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Uncertainty further hobbles recovery since builders traditionally finance the different phases of construction by preselling apartments and taking out new loans.