limber up
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The swimmer limbered up for a few minutes before the final."
- "You need to limber up your wits before the exam."
- "A good massage will limber up the neck and arms."
- "As politicians limber up for European elections in the summer of 2019, the biggest party grouping in the European parliament, the European People’s party, is desperately clinging on to Orbán’s Fidesz party, and has even been making furtive overtures to Poland’s PiS, for fear of the Orbvini camp forming a new alliance to compete with it."