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MAIM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

Example:

people were maimed by the explosion

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "maim" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "maim"):

mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)

cripple; lame (deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

maimer (a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples)

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