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Lame
leɪm
Lame definitions
adjective
lame
lamer
lamest
- (especially of an animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot
"his horse went lame"
- (of a leg or foot) affected by injury or illness
"despite his lame leg, he fled"
- (of something intended to be entertaining) uninspiring and dull
"I found the programme pretty lame and not very informative"
uninteresting boring tedious tiresome wearisome dry dry as dust flat bland characterless featureless colourless monotonous unexciting uninspiring unstimulating lacking variety lacking variation lacking excitement lacking interest unimaginative uneventful lifeless soulless insipid- (of an explanation or excuse) unconvincingly feeble
"the TV licensing teams hear a lot of lame excuses"
- (of a person) dull, unfashionable, or socially inept
"anyone who doesn't know that is obviously lame"
- (of verse or metrical feet) halting; metrically defective
verb
lame
lamed
lames
laming
- make (a person or animal) lame
"he was badly lamed during the expedition"
incapacitate impair damage put out of action render/make powerless weaken enfeeble debilitate indispose make unfit