maim

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1. maim - Noun

2. maim - Verb

Meaning

To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.

The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

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I smell fennel,” Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore. Donald Barthelme

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to. Lawrence Taylor

This too I know-and wise it were If each could know the same- That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. Oscar Wilde

Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath. David Wilkerson

They're lining up the prisoners And the guards are taking aim I struggled with some demons They were middle-class and tame I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim. Leonard Cohen

To spoil a child is to maim it a bit. American Proverb

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