English to afrikaans meaning of

limbo

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "limbo" is:(selfstandige naamwoord) 'n toestand van onsekerheid of verwaarlosing; 'n tussenliggende plek of toestand; 'n toestand van wees tussen twee verskillende toestande of situasies. Voorbeeld: Nadat hy sy werk verloor het, het hy homself in 'n limbo bevind waar hy nie seker was wat om volgende te doen nie.(selfstandige naamwoord) in sommige Christelike oortuigings, 'n plek of staat van vergetelheid waar geglo word dat die siele van ongedoopte babas en van die regverdiges wat voor die koms van Christus gesterf het, bestaan. Voorbeeld: Volgens Katolieke leerstelling is limbo 'n bestaanstoestand vir diegene wat nie gedoop is nie, maar geen sonde gepleeg het wat die ewige straf verdien nie.(selfstandige naamwoord) a Wes-Indiese dans waarin die danser agteroor buig en onder 'n horisontale staaf deurgaan wat progressief tot 'n sekere hoogte verlaag word. Voorbeeld: By die partytjie het hulle 'n limbo-kompetisie gehad en die wenner kon baie laag onder die lat gaan.

Sentence Examples

  1. They believe he is in a state of limbo and needs his followers to awaken him.
  2. Why did he stress the urgency of the meeting, only to keep us waiting in limbo this long?
  3. Would she die, and die quickly, or was I doing nothing more than suspending her in a limbo of pain?
  4. We may be satisfied with some answers we have found, while others sit in limbo waiting to rise to the surface again, but what we need now is not an old question, but a new one, because our midlife is a crisis.
  5. With the second flash of light, I became aware of something quite different in this strange limbo.
  6. Show signs of life to all those other women, whose acquaintance had been put in parenthesis, invert-ed commas or under square brackets, or those with whom business had been left in limbo, in infancy or in the stage of innuendo.
  7. He smiled at the irony that the lessons from his years in Limbo should stand him in such good stead now.
  8. The occupants stuck in a limbo, waiting for the so-called rescue to make contact.
  9. Maybe it was the disorientation of finding myself in a jungle when I had expected a prison, but I felt like half my mind was still caught in that limbo where the illusionist had dropped me with a single word.
  10. Yet, even in this strange limbo, the gray and black darkness engulfing me seemed to twist and move as if it was a monstrous snake that had completely coiled itself around me, squeezing me tighter and tighter.
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