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Maim v. t. (past & past part. maimed;pres. part. maiming)

To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. "By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part."

To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. "My late maimed limbs lack wonted might." "You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops."

Synonyms: To mutilate; mangle; cripple.

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"Maimed" Quotes from Famous Books

... in days agone For storm, wherein the Sweeping One, Midst rain of swords, and the darts' breath, Blew o'er all a gale of death. Now a maimed, one-footed man On rollers' steed through waters wan Out to Iceland must I go; Ah, ...

— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris

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... being pained, Colonel Bancker had so far avoided all the painful sights of the war. He had not visited the wounded at the Park Barracks or in any of the hospitals—he had managed to see none of the maimed living and none of the glorious dead—he had even escaped the hungry wives of the soldiers, clamoring for their husbands' pay and the means to buy bread, along the crosswalks of the Park and at the entrances of the City Hall. So ...

— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

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... would quit this horrid dream and journey back to the Southland. They lurched blindly forward, and their hands met—their poor maimed hands, swollen and distorted beneath ...

— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London

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... animals, and with a sharp knife has cut the tendons or leaders behind the hoofs, or, rather, in the ankles, laming them and preventing them from being able to follow a drive. Where would we be in the spring if any large portion of our beasts were so maimed?" ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

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... art is exercised at its expense, not for its gratification. We do not go to the operating table as we go to the theatre, to the picture gallery, to the concert room, to be entertained and delighted: we go to be tormented and maimed, lest a worse thing should befall us. It is of the most extreme importance to us that the experts on whose assurance we face this horror and suffer this mutilation should leave no interests but our own to think of; should judge our cases scientifically; and should feel about them ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw

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