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maim

[ meym ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple:

    The explosion maimed him for life.

  2. to impair; make essentially defective:

    The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.

    Synonyms: , , ,



noun

Obsolete.
  1. a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
  2. an injury or defect; blemish; lack.

maim

/ meɪm; ˈmeɪmɪdnɪs /

verb

  1. to mutilate, cripple, or disable a part of the body of (a person or animal)
  2. to make defective
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. obsolete.
    an injury or defect
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¾²¹¾±³¾±ð°ù, noun
  • maimedness, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾²¹¾±³¾Â·±ð°ù noun
  • °ù±ð·³¾²¹¾±³¾ verb (used with object)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of maim1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English mayme, variant of mahayme mayhem
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of maim1

C14: from Old French mahaignier to wound, probably of Germanic origin
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Synonym Study

Maim, lacerate, mangle, mutilate indicate the infliction of painful and severe injuries on the body. To maim is to injure by giving a disabling wound, or by depriving a person of one or more members or their use: maimed in an accident. To lacerate is to inflict severe cuts and tears on the flesh or skin: to lacerate an arm. To mangle is to chop undiscriminatingly or to crush or rend by blows or pressure, as if by machinery: bodies mangled in a train wreck. To mutilate is to injure the completeness or beauty of a body, especially by cutting off an important member: to mutilate a statue, a tree, a person.
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He shared with me another picture, of his maimed hand, only now it also bore a tattooed message which expressed that his wounds were a cheap sacrifice in honour of Nasrallah, the late Hezbollah leader.

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Unicef said "relentless and indiscriminate bombardments" had resumed in Gaza, with 100 children killed or maimed every day in the 10 days to 31 March.

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Many of the volunteers who took up arms three years ago have either been killed, maimed, or are too exhausted to fight any more.

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The UN investigators documented the shooting at point-blank range of some protesters, the deliberate maiming of others, arbitrary arrests and torture.

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Elsewhere, the UN said he had committed, and was responsible for, acts such as killing and maiming, sexual violence and abduction.

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