maims
- present tense form of maim (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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No matter what happens to them — no matter how the world paints them, vilifies them, maims them — they were here, and at least for a moment, they owned their own lives.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2019
Agnieszka is a simple village girl who is gifted to her local wizard, The Dragon, as payment for thwarting the advance of the ominous Wood, which kills or maims any who enter it.
From The Guardian • May 21, 2019
It’s a pervasive scourge that damages all of us, that directly maims the lives of women and leaves us all in chains.
From Salon • May 16, 2016
Although it maims its victims, brucellosis seldom kills them.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims,** he is reported to have said, “for I see well we be in great peril of death.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
