English-French translations for limb

• membre
  À les croire, les membres des patients ressemblaient à des manches de balai brisés. People's limbs, they reported, looked like broken broomsticks.
  La lapidation jusqu’à ce que mort s’ensuive, l’amputation de membres, les flagellations et la torture sont monnaie courante. Stoning to death, amputation of limbs, floggings and torture are commonplace.
  Les images d’enfants aux membres mutilés ne s’appliquent pas au contexte de la Finlande. Images of children with mutilated limbs do not apply to conditions in Finland.
• branche
• limbe
  La politique sociale de l'Union est encore dans les limbes. The Union's social policy is still in limbo.
• démembrer
• extrémité

Definition of limb

• A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing
• A branch of a tree
• The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip
• A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else
• The part of a corolla beyond the throat
• To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree
• To supply with limbs
• The apparent visual edge of a celestial body
• The graduated edge of a circle or arc

Examples

• They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
• solar limb

Related words

• climb
• climbing
• limba
• limbo
• limbless
• climbdown
• forelimb
• limbs
• Limburgish