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maim
/meɪm/
verb 1noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
southeast, still
VERB + MAIM
bear, kill
MAIM + NOUN
people
PREP.
in
Definitions
verb
1
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
He was maimed by a bear.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
noun
1
A severe, serious wound.
it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee
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He was maimed by a bear.
Wiktionary02
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked d
Wiktionary03
it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was fa
Wiktionary04
If you try to stare down a bear, it will maim you.
Tatoeba · #897962705
American cluster bombs still kill and maim people in Southeast Asia.
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