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maim
[ meym ]
verb (used with object)
- to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple:
The explosion maimed him for life.
- to impair; make essentially defective:
The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.
Synonyms: , , ,
noun
- a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
- an injury or defect; blemish; lack.
maim
/ me瑟m; 藞me瑟m瑟dn瑟s /
verb
- to mutilate, cripple, or disable a part of the body of (a person or animal)
- to make defective
noun
- obsolete.an injury or defect
Derived Forms
- 藞尘补颈尘别谤, noun
- maimedness, noun
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)
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of maim1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
For a fee of up to 拢10,000, he was willing to maim and disfigure whoever his clients wanted him to.
My unfortunate niche is innocent Americans who were mistreated, maimed, or killed in the name of elastic, expansive, nebulous, and incendiary words like 鈥渢errorists,鈥 鈥渋nsider threats,鈥 鈥渆nemies within,鈥 鈥渋llegals,鈥 and 鈥渢raitors.鈥
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
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.
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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