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maim

(mām)

tr.v. maimed, maim·ing, maims

1. To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at mangle.

2. To make imperfect or defective; impair: "The presumption of innocence has already been maimed ... for foreign Muslims" (Nicholas D. Kristof).

[Middle English maimen, from Old French mahaignier; see mayhem.]

maim′er n.

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maim

(meɪm)

vb (tr)

1. to mutilate, cripple, or disable a part of the body of (a person or animal)

2. to make defective

obsolete an injury or defect

[C14: from Old French mahaignier to wound, probably of Germanic origin]

maimedness n

ˈmaimer n

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maim

(meɪm)

v.t.

1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body, esp. by wounding.

2. to impair; disfigure.

3. Obs. an injury, esp. loss of a limb.

[1250–1300; < Anglo-French, Old French mahaignier, perhaps < Frankish *maithanjan to castrate]

maim′er, n.

maim

Past participle: maimed
Gerund: maiming

Imperative
maim
maim

Present
I maim
you maim
he/she/it maims
we maim
you maim
they maim

Preterite
I maimed
you maimed
he/she/it maimed
we maimed
you maimed
they maimed

Present Continuous
I am maiming
you are maiming
he/she/it is maiming
we are maiming
you are maiming
they are maiming

Present Perfect
I have maimed
you have maimed
he/she/it has maimed
we have maimed
you have maimed
they have maimed

Past Continuous
I was maiming
you were maiming
he/she/it was maiming
we were maiming
you were maiming
they were maiming

Past Perfect
I had maimed
you had maimed
he/she/it had maimed
we had maimed
you had maimed
they had maimed

Future
I will maim
you will maim
he/she/it will maim
we will maim
you will maim
they will maim

Future Perfect
I will have maimed
you will have maimed
he/she/it will have maimed
we will have maimed
you will have maimed
they will have maimed

Future Continuous
I will be maiming
you will be maiming
he/she/it will be maiming
we will be maiming
you will be maiming
they will be maiming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been maiming
you have been maiming
he/she/it has been maiming
we have been maiming
you have been maiming
they have been maiming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been maiming
you will have been maiming
he/she/it will have been maiming
we will have been maiming
you will have been maiming
they will have been maiming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been maiming
you had been maiming
he/she/it had been maiming
we had been maiming
you had been maiming
they had been maiming

Conditional
I would maim
you would maim
he/she/it would maim
we would maim
you would maim
they would maim

Past Conditional
I would have maimed
you would have maimed
he/she/it would have maimed
we would have maimed
you would have maimed
they would have maimed

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Verb

maim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

injure - cause injuries or bodily harm to

mar, mutilate - destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"

lame - deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"

maim

verb cripple, hurt, injure, wound, mar, disable, hamstring, impair, lame, mutilate, mangle, incapacitate, put out of action One man has lost his life; another has been maimed.

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maim

verb

To deprive of a limb or bodily member or its use:

cripple, dismember, mutilate.

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maim

[meɪm] VT → mutilar, lisiar
to be maimed for life → quedar lisiado de por vida

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

maim

(meim) verb

to injure badly, especially with permanent effects. The hunter was maimed for life.mutilar, lisiar

maim

v. mutilar; estropear; lisiar.

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A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair.

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Sometimes, after every two or three mouthfuls, he laid down his knife and fork, and stared at his son with all his might--particularly at his maimed side; then, he looked slowly round the table until he caught some person's eye, when he shook his head with great solemnity, patted his shoulder, winked, or as one may say--for winking was a very slow process with him--went to sleep with one eye for a minute or two; and so, with another solemn shaking of his head, took up his knife and fork again, and went on eating.

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There exists a monition of the Bishop of Durham against irregular churchmen of this class, who associated themselves with Border robbers, and desecrated the holiest offices of the priestly function, by celebrating them for the benefit of thieves, robbers, and murderers, amongst ruins and in caverns of the earth, without regard to canonical form, and with torn and dirty attire, and maimed rites, altogether improper for the occasion.

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