maim
verb (used with object)
to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple.
have maimed
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present perfectof maim.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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They have distorted it; have maimed it; have devitalized it at essential points.
From Religious Perplexities by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
It was an old snow, moreover, thickly crusted, and would have maimed our horses in a few minutes.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
After Pip had walked down two streets and halfway across a square, he stopped suddenly and dealt his leg a blow with a tennis-racquet that would have maimed an ordinary limb for life.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
Some men would have maimed their chance, if not spoiled the game, by jumping up with hot interruption, and hurriedly exposed the blunder upon which Dillon had stumbled.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 by Various
O, mistress, you have hurt us all in this: You have cut off your strength, you have maimed yourself, You are losing power and worship and men's trust.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
