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Answer for the clue "On crutches ", 7 letters:
propped

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: prop )

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See prop

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Prop \Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Propping .] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago set, layer of a plant, ...

Usage examples of propped.

Reeling, stumbling, Barranca fell into the wall and slid slowly down until he sat propped against it, staring back with a sardonic red-freckled grimace.

He propped Bern against the wall for a moment, braced him with his good shoulder, and tied his trouser drawstrings, to let him be decent, at least.

Strathmore sat on the couch with the Berretta propped awkwardly in his lap.

Sir Alfred had the newspaper propped in front of him in hopes of avoiding the morning brangling between his children and the carping demands of his wife.

Their master leapt down from the bright burnished car, propped his whip on the yoke.

Camila, her head seamlessly edited to the body of a bandy-legged horsewoman, propped her cutlass on the shoulder of her yak-hide coat and looked at the gathering throng with nervous amusement.

I propped myself against the wall in the shower, hoping the hydrotherapy would mend my skewed circuits.

Barlow scowling in a grim Wyoming snowscape, with long black coat, dark hat, a Macintosh SE30 propped on a fencepost and an awesome frontier rifle tucked under one arm, will be the single most striking visual image of the Hacker Crackdown.

He got up, removed the shell, propped the shotgun against the bedroom wall, set the misfired shell on the bookcase, took the note down from the back door, and slept for three hours.

They lost the spoor on the third day in the rain, but a dozen times in the years since then, Flynn had followed and lost those double furrows, and once, through his binoculars, he had seen the old bull again, standing dozing beneath a grove of morula trees at a distance of three miles, his eroded old head propped up by the mythical tusks.

On another table, finished dollsdark-haired and mouthless as always, but dressed in tunics of velvet and silk fancier than any Tobin ownedsat propped in a double rank against the wall.

By the time Mother Love and I rode down to join them, the beast was dead, its tremendous body prostrate on the grass but its head propped up by its big soft snout and one immense palmate antler.

Tuck found one more lamp and lit it, Patrel propped the kitchen door in its jamb, for the most part sealing out the wind and snow.

Imperial Sassan Academy of Geology, Planetology, and Geosciences CHAPTER 25 Sinklar walked into his palace bedroom and found Anatolia propped on the sleeping platform, preoccupation in her haggard eyes.

Deputy Presser stepped over to the stove and pulled the Savage over-and-under shotgun from where it had been propped against the wall.