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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It is a sorrow to know that you have maimed yourself; that you are tied to an unworthy man.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
They have distorted it; have maimed it; have devitalized it at essential points.
From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
A false step, a bit of crumbling rock, a slip of the hand would have destroyed our hopes, and perhaps have maimed me for life, if not killed me.
From Roger Trewinion by King, Gunning
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
A good many artists have maimed or ruined themselves by pretending that, besides the distinction between good art and bad, there is a distinction between aristocratic art and plebeian.
From Art by Bell, Clive
