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MAIM

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Dictionary entry overview: What does maim mean?

• MAIM (verb)
The verb MAIM has 1 sense:

1. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

Familiarity information: MAIM used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MAIM (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

people were maimed by the explosion

Hypernyms (to "maim" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "maim"):

mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)

cripple; lame (deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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