lame• The horse, like so many tonga horses, was lame.• The party was lame.• In Lexington's case her parents and grandparents had good hips and she is not lame.• Movement is always hard to assess at this age, but avoid any puppy who moves erratically or is obviously lame!• His suspension was as lame as O. J. Simpson getting to do counseling over the telephone for domesticabuse.• It sounded lame but I really had lost my ticket.• And while that makes him a lameduck, he still has his vetopen and his bullypulpit.• It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizinglame ducks to ease the transition.• She's always got some lame excuse for being late.• I don't want to hear any of your lame excuses for being late.
lame attempt• The door is falling off its hinges; a sheet of plastic makes a lame attempt to keep out the wind.
lame2 verb [transitiveT]
INJUREto make a person or animal unable to walk properly 使〔人或动物〕跛[瘸];使残废SYN cripple
5The fall left him badly lamed.
那一跤摔得他走路瘸得很厉害。
nHe was lamed in the accident.
nGrammar
Lame is usually passive.
Examples from the Corpus
lame• It was Crane who had been lamed and the question arose how they were to use the horses.• One had bolted having kicked and lamed one of the verderers who had tried to hold it.