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  • verb Present participle of limb.

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Examples

  • Peppered with spectacular vistas and unsettling set-pieces, Dead Space 2 grafts significantly more character and plot on to its central conceit of necromorph de-limbing, making this feel far more polished and less grindingly depressing than the first outing.

    This week's new games 2011

  • In fact, just yesterday, I borrowed my son's ipod while I was cutting firewood, and cranked "Stranglehold" up to the max, and I was limbing and bucking beetle-killed lodegpole like the Motor City Madman himself.

    On The Nuge Feud 2009

  • In fact, just yesterday, I borrowed my son's ipod while I was cutting firewood, and cranked "Stranglehold" up to the max, and I was limbing and bucking beetle-killed lodegpole like the Motor City Madman himself.

    On The Nuge Feud 2009

  • The slashings, the slaying, the de-limbing of his victims.

    Top 10 Movies Ruined by a Female Presence » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • The truth was that limbing trees had become part hobby and part part-time job.

    No Ordinary Utensil 2009

  • One sunny spring day I was limbing a huge oak tree in the back yard that was too close to the house.

    No Ordinary Utensil 2009

  • “Who owns this wood?” said I in Welsh to two men who were limbing a felled tree by the road-side.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • So by limbing trees up to that height, we can eliminate that problem to some extent.

    CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2001 2001

  • In a fanciful mood, one might imagine a tenth circle of the Inferno, wherein those stern grey arches should loftily rise, in blind and endless sequence, limbing an abode of horror, a place of punishment for those, empty-hearted, who had lived without colour and sunshine, in voluntary abnegation, caring only for gain and success.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

  • It was a labor of extraordinary difficulty, there in those dense and dim-lit thickets, felling a tall spruce, limbing it out and cutting it into three sections.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

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