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Synonyms for maim

Grammar : Verb
Spell : meym
Phonetic Transcription : meɪm

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Définition of maim

Origin :
  • c.1300, maimen, from Old French mahaignier "injure, wound, muitilate, cripple, disarm," possibly from Vulgar Latin *mahanare (cf. Provençal mayanhar, Italian magagnare), of unknown origin; or possibly from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *mait- (cf. Old Norse meiða "to hurt," related to mad (adj.)), or from PIE root *mai- "to cut." Related: Maimed; maiming.
  • verb cripple, put out of action
Example sentences :
  • The fall would not kill him—it would only bruise and maim him.
  • Extract from : « Freaks of Fortune » by Oliver Optic
  • Why, they will have had time to maim the man for life in those four days!
  • Extract from : « Two Gallant Sons of Devon » by Harry Collingwood
  • When the savage desires to rob you, he may attempt to strangle and maim you.
  • Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various
  • A drunken vagabond cannot maim his wife but all England must know all about it.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 » by Various
  • Indeed, I would decline to do so even to save my own, but I should have no objection to maim.
  • Extract from : « Post Haste » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • In the ring he struck to hurt, struck to maim, struck to destroy; but there was no animus in it.
  • Extract from : « When God Laughs and Other Stories » by Jack London
  • The indictment charged him with assault with intent to maim.
  • Extract from : « The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier » by Charles E. Flandrau
  • Do you wish to kill or 39 maim us both before it is necessary?
  • Extract from : « An Idyll of All Fools' Day » by Josephine Daskam Bacon
  • What if she maim and mutilate all the animals in her Noah's Ark?
  • Extract from : « Folly as It Flies » by Fanny Fern
  • We will beat him, and put him in our stocks, and maim his cattle.
  • Extract from : « The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century » by Richard Henry Tawney

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