had been maiming

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of maim.
  maim

  verb (used with object)

  to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple.

Related Words

• disable
• disfigure
• dismember
• hack
• harm
• impair
• incapacitate
• injure
• mangle
• maul
• mutilate
• wound