Antonyms for laming
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : leym |
| Phonetic Transcription : leɪm |
- adorn
- aid
- allow
- assist
- assuage
- beautify
- bore
- build
- build up
- capacitate
- clear up
- comfort
- compliment
- construct
- continue
- create
- cure
- decorate
- embellish
- embolden
- enable
- encourage
- enlighten
- enliven
- explain
- facilitate
- fail
- fix
- further
- heal
- help
- improve
- incite
- let go
- lose
- mend
- mobilize
- ornament
- permit
- please
- praise
- promote
- protect
- release
- repair
- restore
- soothe
- stimulate
- strengthen
- support
- surrender
Definition of laming
Origin :- 1520s, from lame (adj.) + -ness.
- As in incapacitate : verb put out of action
- As in maim : verb cripple, put out of action
- As in mutilate : verb maim, damage
- As in paralyze : verb immobilize
- As in batter : verb strike and damage
- As in cripple : verb disable; make lame
- As in hamstring : verb disable
- The man got off, as a matter of habit, to know what was laming his Horse.
- Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
- This differs from the case of laming the horse with a nail in two respects.
- Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- I've got such a character that I'm perfectly capable of laming you for life!
- Extract from : « Plays by Chekhov, Second Series » by Anton Chekhov
- Laming's Christian zeal did not induce him to forget the duties of hospitality.
- Extract from : « The Book of the Bush » by George Dunderdale
- Bowling, a good excercise for women: castinge of the barre and camping, I accompt rather a laming of legges, then an exercise.
- Extract from : « The Sweating Sickness » by John Caius
- In North America the same story of the trapping and laming of the sun is told, and attributed to a hero named Tcha-ka-betch.
- Extract from : « Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 » by Andrew Lang
- This is a form of laming or crippling of certain muscles in childhood known as infantile paralysis.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of Health » by Woods Hutchinson
- Those Lancashire operatives, laming and killing each other at football, turning a game into a battle.
- Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing
- It is no use going on till your feet get really hard, for you would only be laming yourself again.
- Extract from : « Condemned as a Nihilist » by George Alfred Henty
- There is no real sport in shooting at and laming an inoffensive creature, one that cannot be made use of for food.
- Extract from : « Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's » by Laura Lee Hope
Synonyms for laming
- adulterate
- amputate
- anesthetize
- appall
- arrest
- assault
- astound
- attenuate
- bash
- batter
- beat
- bemuse
- benumb
- blemish
- blunt
- bowdlerize
- break
- bring to grinding halt
- bruise
- buffet
- butcher
- castrate
- clip wings
- clobber
- close
- contuse
- cripple
- crush
- cut to pieces
- cut up
- damage
- dash
- daunt
- daze
- deaden
- debilitate
- deface
- demolish
- destroy
- disable
- disarm
- disenable
- disfigure
- dislimb
- dismember
- disqualify
- distort
- drub
- enfeeble
- expurgate
- freeze
- gimp
- hack
- halt
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hash up
- hinder
- hobble
- hog-tie
- hurt
- immobilize
- impair
- incapacitate
- injure
- knock out
- lacerate
- lambaste
- lame
- lash
- lay up
- maim
- make inert
- make nerveless
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- maul
- mayhem
- mess up
- mutilate
- nonplus
- numb
- palsy
- paralyze
- pelt
- petrify
- pommel
- pound
- prostrate
- pummel
- punish
- put out of commission
- ravage
- ruin
- sap
- scratch
- shatter
- shut down
- sideline
- smash
- spoil
- stifle
- stop dead
- stun
- stupefy
- take out
- thrash
- transfix
- truncate
- undermine
- unstrengthen
- wallop
- warp
- weaken
- wound
- wreck
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