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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
- Yoga has helped me to become more limber.
limber = flexible
- She has limber problem solving skills.
- Stretching every day helps to keep me limber.
- The violist limbered her wrists before the concert
- 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
- He just lay there in the sunshine, all stretched out and limber as a rag.Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
- 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
- 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
- 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
limber = readily adaptable
limber = flexible
limbered = stretched and warmed up
limber = flexible
limber = flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)
limber = flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)
limbering = warming (to get flexible)
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