亚洲网紅露点

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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

/ me瑟m; 藞me瑟m瑟dn瑟s /

verb

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

noun

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

  • 藞尘补颈尘别谤, noun
  • maimedness, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘补颈尘路别谤 noun
  • 谤别路尘补颈尘 verb (used with object)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of maim1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English mayme, variant of mahayme mayhem
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亚洲网紅露点 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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For a fee of up to 拢10,000, he was willing to maim and disfigure whoever his clients wanted him to.

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I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: 鈥渋 cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.鈥

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But when this colossal chess game ends with the Mistress of Mayhem maiming her adversary, 鈥淭he Art of Personal Chaos鈥 transitions into something even more extraordinary.

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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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