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halting: fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few broken words of sorrow"

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crippled collapse: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

handicapped collapse

emasculated collapse

incapacitated collapse

cumbrous collapse

disabled collapse: people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled"; markedly unable to function as a consequence of injury or illness; so badly injured as to be excused from continuing; "disabled veterans"

sesquipedalian collapse: a very long word (a foot and a half long); given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

castrated collapse: deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes

stammering collapse

unrhythmical collapse: not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent

bombastic collapse: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

bumbling collapse: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

hesitating collapse

heavy handed collapse

doggerel collapse: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

lurching collapse

turgid collapse

maladroit collapse: not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"

turtlelike collapse

stuttering collapse

gradual collapse: (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass; proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices"; (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt; "a gradual slope"

unhurried collapse: relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"; capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children"

poking collapse

veering collapse

limping collapse

unwieldy collapse: difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations"; difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"

gauche collapse: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

ambling collapse

toddling collapse

trudging collapse

spastic collapse: a person suffering from spastic paralysis; suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"; relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"

unmethodical collapse: not efficient or methodical; "the project failed through unmethodical planning"

faltering collapse: unsteady in speech or action

slothful collapse

lame collapse: a fabric interwoven with threads of metal; "she wore a gold lame dress"

hesitant collapse: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

indolent collapse: (of tumors e.g) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease"

inarticulate collapse: without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry"

forced collapse: made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"; forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"; produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"

intermittent collapse: stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"; stopping and starting at regular intervals

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