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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
maim .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a part of the body crippled or disabled
- noun people who are wounded
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Examples
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If we through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live; that is meant by our entering into life maimed, that is, the body of sin maimed; and it is but maimed at the best, while we are in this world.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Is it possible science will eventually reveal that a right allegedly protected by amendment results in maimed human beings?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion 2010
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I find it astonishing - not to say macabre - that virtually the first thing a lay person would do after escaping injury in an explosion in which dozens of other human beings are killed or maimed is to film or photograph the scene and then relay it to a broadcasting organisation.
Is Jeff Jarvis the #1 Blogger ? Ben Barren 2005
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I find it astonishing - not to say macabre - that virtually the first thing a lay person would do after escaping injury in an explosion in which dozens of other human beings are killed or maimed is to film or photograph the scene and then relay it to a broadcasting organisation.
Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005
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The still hospital where lay the maimed was their part in a civilization whose sincerity they had trusted as little children trust in the perfection of their parents.
Four Days The Story of a War Marriage Hetty Hemenway
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We don't know how many women are "maimed," but it strikes us that our reader is almost certainly right to say that "millions" is a gross exaggeration.
White Cower 2009
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This vandal law did not deign to take the least notice of the anguish of the "maimed" slave, made, perhaps, a groaning cripple for life.
Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army 1914
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Thothia subtribe are said to be the descendants of illicit unions, the word Thothia meaning 'maimed'; while the Gandas are the offspring of intermarriages between the Pardhans and members of that degraded caste.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Ado had NOT been "maimed" and "deformed," as divers other quartos, stolen and surreptitious, had been.
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878
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This Vandal law does not deign to take the least notice of the anguish of the 'maimed' slave, made, perhaps, a groaning cripple for life; the horrible wrong and injury done to him, is passed over in utter silence.
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839
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