Pronunciations (2)
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/meɪm/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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meɪm
Verb
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
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He was maimed by a bear.
More examples (1)
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Noun
A severe, serious wound.
Usage- Obsolete
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More examples (1)
it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee
Verb
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
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people were maimed by the explosion