maim
verb (used with object)
to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple.
had maimed
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past perfectof maim.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Last fall, for instance, despite ambiguous evidence, a jury ordered Merrell Dow to pay a Texas couple $33.8 million; they claimed the antinausea drug Bendectin had maimed their child in the womb.
From Time Magazine Archive
But something had maimed him, scarred him like Reverend Cooper’s knot, like Saul’s missing teeth, and like his own father.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
What the fire had maimed in the original the chisel maimed in the copy.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
She understood that she was herself, in a sense, accountable—that the greatness of her love for the father had maimed the child.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
Egypt had cheated us, for Egypt took through guile and craft our treasure and our hope, Egypt had maimed us, offered dream for life, an opiate for a kiss, and death for both.
From Hymen by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
