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Definition

of a person's body: flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)

or:

readily adaptable — especially of someone's mind

limber = flexible

limber = readily adaptable

limber = flexible

limbered = stretched and warmed up

My stiff limbs are well on the way to becoming as limber as they used to be.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

limber = flexible

He just lay there in the sunshine, all stretched out and limber as a rag.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows

limber = flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)

So limber, in fact, he could touch behind his ankles, and raise a leg to his belly.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

limber = flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)

After rounding off his limbering-up exercises with a few vigorous arm swings, His Lordship begins dressing.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

limbering = warming (to get flexible)

The habit had become part of him, and he would need his fingers to be limber to have even half a chance of murdering Mance Rayder.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
We'll try it limber, and bring off the shot.
Homer -- The Odyssey
Alessandro sat down at the typewriter and cracked his knuckles to limber them up.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Maybe we can catch him before he limbers up.
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
I have to move, to make up for that Kulmbach beer and limber up my wooden leg.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
She was such a limber maid that 'a could stand no hardship, even when I knowed her, and 'a went like a candle-snoff, so 'tis said.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Not me; I felt good, muscles warm and limber.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
You almost expected to see a long, limber stinger protruding from the rear of it.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Chingachgook was already in the canoe, and he dipped the implement the other named into the water, just as Hurry's limber tongue ceased.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
I pulled the husband figure out, his limbs bouncing around excitedly, a dancer limbering up.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
He rolled his eyes and went through a limber, satiric buck-and-wing.
Stephen King -- Carrie
I limbered my legs on the barre and started to practice.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer

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