Maim
verb
To injure someone so that part of their body is permanently damaged.
He was maimed in the accident and lost his arm.
Often appears as...
- maimed in an accident
- maimed for life
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Disapproving
verb
To severely damage or spoil something.
The sculpture was maimed by vandals.
Often appears as...
- maimed by vandals
- maimed reputation
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Disapproving
verb
To injure someone so that part of their body is permanently damaged.
He was maimed in the accident and lost his arm.
Often appears as...
- maimed in an accident
- maimed for life
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To severely damage or spoil something.
The sculpture was maimed by vandals.
Often appears as...
- maimed by vandals
- maimed reputation
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Harm
Refers to causing serious, often permanent, injuries that impair someone's physical abilities or appearance.
The soldier was maimed by a grenade in battle.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Carries a heavy emotional implication, highlighting the severity and tragedy of an injury.
The family was devastated when their father was maimed at work.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Accidental
Often implies the injury was a result of intentional actions or violent events, not mere accidents.
The ruthless king would maim his enemies to instill fear.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Harm
Refers to causing serious, often permanent, injuries that impair someone's physical abilities or appearance.
The soldier was maimed by a grenade in battle.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Carries a heavy emotional implication, highlighting the severity and tragedy of an injury.
The family was devastated when their father was maimed at work.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Accidental
Often implies the injury was a result of intentional actions or violent events, not mere accidents.
The ruthless king would maim his enemies to instill fear.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Harm
Refers to causing serious, often permanent, injuries that impair someone's physical abilities or appearance.
The soldier was maimed by a grenade in battle.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Carries a heavy emotional implication, highlighting the severity and tragedy of an injury.
The family was devastated when their father was maimed at work.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Accidental
Often implies the injury was a result of intentional actions or violent events, not mere accidents.
The ruthless king would maim his enemies to instill fear.
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Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
even just seaweed out there in the oceans, which a lot of families were utilizing, or in the deserts where all the plants look like they want to hurt you or maim you. The Indigenous peoples knew how to live with them. And another piece like the domesticated piece, with all the agriculture, it's really important,
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What happened when we...
And we desperately need the help of the private sector. We need the help of the tech industry. To help us develop -- not help us, we want them to develop -- information management systems, so we can all talk to each other and stop these perpetrators from raping and maiming and killing with impunity.
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A giant bubble for...
and and maimed mall for a maimed collection almost four decades later how would this building expand for a new progressive program where would it go can't go in the mall there is no space there it can't go in the courtyard it's already taken up by landscape and by
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Why we need to fight...
that if she was a loving parent, she wouldn't vaccinate. Now, when I encountered this and I talked to my mom, it didn't obviously go well at first, because I was wanting to do something that she thought would either cause autism or maim me for the rest of my life,
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Peter Singer: The why...
so that more people think that if we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots and not cheat, steal, maim, kill, but that if we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
and the the theme tune stuck in my head and will be forever lamentably so um they will get their full Mane's probably in about three years or so they will start to look full maimed in about a year and a half or so I guess that'll
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Finding landmines using...
are killed or maimed by landmines each year landmines prevent construction of homes roads schools and hospitals formerly war-torn parts of Africa and Asia feel the impact especially hard because
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A glimpse of life on the...
But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. Addiction is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill,
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A path to security for...
to throw a flash bang grenade into the crib of a little boy, exploding near his face and maiming him for life. The fact is, most violence everywhere happens to people on the wrong side of town
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The opportunity of...
stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in
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Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
even just seaweed out there in the oceans, which a lot of families were utilizing, or in the deserts where all the plants look like they want to hurt you or maim you. The Indigenous peoples knew how to live with them. And another piece like the domesticated piece, with all the agriculture, it's really important,
Video examples
What happened when we...
And we desperately need the help of the private sector. We need the help of the tech industry. To help us develop -- not help us, we want them to develop -- information management systems, so we can all talk to each other and stop these perpetrators from raping and maiming and killing with impunity.
Video examples
A giant bubble for...
and and maimed mall for a maimed collection almost four decades later how would this building expand for a new progressive program where would it go can't go in the mall there is no space there it can't go in the courtyard it's already taken up by landscape and by
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Why we need to fight...
that if she was a loving parent, she wouldn't vaccinate. Now, when I encountered this and I talked to my mom, it didn't obviously go well at first, because I was wanting to do something that she thought would either cause autism or maim me for the rest of my life,
Video examples
Peter Singer: The why...
so that more people think that if we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots and not cheat, steal, maim, kill, but that if we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
and the the theme tune stuck in my head and will be forever lamentably so um they will get their full Mane's probably in about three years or so they will start to look full maimed in about a year and a half or so I guess that'll
Video examples
Finding landmines using...
are killed or maimed by landmines each year landmines prevent construction of homes roads schools and hospitals formerly war-torn parts of Africa and Asia feel the impact especially hard because
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A glimpse of life on the...
But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. Addiction is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill,
Video examples
A path to security for...
to throw a flash bang grenade into the crib of a little boy, exploding near his face and maiming him for life. The fact is, most violence everywhere happens to people on the wrong side of town
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The opportunity of...
stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in
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Quote examples
Adrian McKinty
Irish Novelist
I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.
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Stanley Hauerwas
American Theologian
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.
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Norman Schwarzkopf
American General
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
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Tim O'Brien
American Author
At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
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Jane Leavy
American Writer
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
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Hanoi Hannah
Vietnamese Celebrity
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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R. W. Apple, Jr.
American Journalist
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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Lawrence Taylor
American Athlete
In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.
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Adrian McKinty
Irish Novelist
I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.
Quote examples
Stanley Hauerwas
American Theologian
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.
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Norman Schwarzkopf
American General
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
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Tim O'Brien
American Author
At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
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Jane Leavy
American Writer
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
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Hanoi Hannah
Vietnamese Celebrity
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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R. W. Apple, Jr.
American Journalist
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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Lawrence Taylor
American Athlete
In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.
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