Synonyms for
Limbs
Definition
Limbs are the arms, legs, or wings of a person or animal.
Synonyms & similar words
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Antonyms
Common collocations
- upper limbs
- lower limbs
- all limbs
- lost a limb
- amputated limb
- broken limb
- limb length
- limb movement
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Usage note
While 'limbs' can refer to arms and legs, it is often used in a more general or scientific context to mean appendages. It can also refer to the branches of a tree.
Example sentences
- The cat stretches its limbs before taking a nap.
- The bird's strong wings helped it fly high in the sky.
- The frog's hind limbs are longer than its front limbs.
- The octopus has eight tentacle limbs.
- I broke my arm and had to wear a cast on my limb.
Quotes
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. - William Blake
The limbs of Nature's body make one scheme, / For all is purest crystal, gem on gem, / And they who walk the fields at noon-day see / A thousand suns beneath the limpid sea. - Christopher Smart
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry