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unlimb

verb

Etymology

From un- + limb.

  1. inherited from *limuz✻
  2. inherited from *limu✻
  3. inherited from lim
  4. inherited from lyme
  5. prefixed as unlimb — “un + limb”

Definitions

  1. To remove a limb or limbs from.

    • […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]
    • The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.

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