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What (who) is hobble - definition
hobble
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Hobbles; Hobble (disambiguation)
(hobbles, hobbling, hobbled)
1.
If you hobble, you walk in an awkward way with small steps, for example because your foot is injured.
He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table...
The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.
VERB: V adv/prep, V
2.
To hobble something or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want.
The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
VERB: V n
Hobble
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Hobbles; Hobble (disambiguation)
·noun Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
II. Hobble ·noun ·same·as Hopple.
III. Hobble ·n.i. To move roughly or irregularly;
- said of style in writing.
IV. Hobble ·noun An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.
VI. Hobble ·n.i. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
hobble
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Hobbles; Hobble (disambiguation)
I. v. n.
Limp, halt, hop, walk lamely.
II. v. a.
Fetter, hopple.
III. n.
1.
Limp, halt.
2.
Perplexity, embarrassment, difficulty, strait, pickle.
Wikipedia
Hobble
To hobble means to walk in an impeded manner, as if with a physical disability or injury, or to cause an animal or person to do likewise.
Examples of use of hobble
1. Such a step by prosecutors could hobble his presidential hopes.
2. I hobble off to room 10 for my deep tissue massage with Henrik.
3. It seems that sectoral appetites for power are doing everything possible to hobble her.
4. Players struggle as they hobble on crutches and fight for ball possession.
5. But one significant effect of this crisis may be to hobble its already halting development.