1 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to walk with difficulty, especially because your feet or legs hurt:
The old man hobbled across the road. * She was hobbling around on crutches.
2 [VN] to tie together two legs of a horse or other animal in order to stop it from running away:
The horse's hind legs had been hobbled.
3 [VN] to make it more difficult for sb to do sth or sth to happen:
Our work is hobbled by the amount of bureaucracy involved.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hobble is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hobble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hobble is tagged as verb.
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