1 (of people or animals) unable to walk well because of an injury to the leg or foot:
My horse had gone lame.
2 (of an excuse, explanation, etc.) weak and difficult to believe:
Stephen made some lame excuse.
lameness noun [U]:
The disease has left her with permanent lameness.
Part of speech: noun
[U] a fabric into which gold or silver thread has been woven:
a silver lame evening gown
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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 lame is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lame a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lame is tagged as adjective.
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