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- noun Plural form of
maiming , present participle ofmaim .
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Examples
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And while the Kray twins (whose gangster crime spree was a '60s sensation) aren't quite as notorious on these shores as Jack the Ripper, the murders and maimings echoing the Kray mayhem are just as gut-churning a challenge for DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones), still smarting from his reputation as "the man who failed to find the Ripper."
Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More! 2011
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When there are multiple murders and maimings in bombings and drive-by shootings of “Non-Ditto-heads”?
Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010
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The rehabilitationist crowd might complain that such security might limit the ability of prisoners to socialize (and form gangs), but seriously — should prison social hour by a higher priority than protection from beatings, maimings, killings andrape?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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"You bear the burden and responsibility for the costs and the maimings and the deaths."
Ariz. Senate defeats 5 bills targeting illegal immigration 2011
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However, when our future president entered the world as an infant maimings, arsons, shootings, lynchings and bombings exploded out of the quiet darkness as part of an unrelenting war on our Black and Brown neighbors.
Brian Levin, J.D.: For Unsolved Civil Rights Era Killers Time Is Formidable Accomplice J.D. Brian Levin 2011
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Their investigators are positive the maimings are self-inflicted; many witnesses to the 'accidents' are prior claimants or relatives of the victims, and one investigator notes that 'somehow they always shoot off parts they seem to need least.'
Health Care Madness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The rapes, tortures, beatings, and maimings carried out by armed soldiers have created a culture of rape within a formerly peaceful society.
Sohaila Abdulali: Outrageous Rapes in Congo, Outrageous Neglect by the UN Sohaila Abdulali 2010
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Do we really think that there is not a cause and effect between demonizing gay people and the beatings and maimings and murders they suffer disproportionately for being hated?
Mr. Obama Disagrees 2010
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And I recognize that his SawStop does prevent amputations and maimings from the table saw incidents.
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The rapes, tortures, beatings, and maimings carried out by armed soldiers have created a culture of rape within a formerly peaceful society.
Sohaila Abdulali: Outrageous Rapes in Congo, Outrageous Neglect by the UN 2010
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