lame
adjective
physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty.
was laming
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past progressiveof lame.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Menard knew, from the way his shoulders followed the swing of his arms, that the steady paddling was laming him sadly.
From The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin
But there was also another reason why he did not breathe a word to her of his suspicions, and that was the slow dread that was laming him—the dread of her contempt.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
The man got off, as a matter of habit, to know what was laming his Horse.
From Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton
