maim
verb (used with object)
to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple.
has maimed
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present perfectof maim (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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What he did and did not do you know; but I must let you understand that wherever he has worked he has maimed it.
From Michael Angelo Buonarroti by Holroyd, Charles
Strong, fierce as death, 'twas thine to choose Thy way at will, each shape to use; In power and might like one of us: What hand has maimed and marred thee thus?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
And in all ways time has marred, and living has defaced, and prudence has maimed, until I grieve to entrust that which I bring to what remains of that which yesterday I brought.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
This man has maimed none of his boys.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
