Sentences with maim
maim
M m - Mines have been scattered in rice paddies and jungles, maiming and killing civilians. [VERB noun]
- The explosion maimed him for life.
- They may well kill the terrorists in the barrage, but they will also kill and maim innocent civilians.
- After an attempt was made to maim Phar Lap by gunmen in a speeding car while he was being led back to his Caulfield stable by his faithful.
- The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.
- At my peak, I would be like a caged lion by the time I got on the court, ready to maim someone.
- The GST, introduced in July 2000, was supposed to maim, possibly kill, the cash economy.
- Foxhounds and other larger breeds have been banned as they are fast and likely to maim deer before hunters make a kill.
- Maim implies an injuring of a person's body so as to deprive him of some member or its use [maimed in an auto accident]; to cripple is to cause to be legless, armless, or lame in any member [crippled by rheumatism]; to mutilate is to remove or severely damage a part of a person or thing essential to the completeness of that person or thing [a speech mutilated by censors]; mangle1 implies mutilation or disfigurement by or as by repeated tearing, hacking, or crushing [his arm was mangled in the press]; to disable is to make incapable of normal physical activity, as by crippling [disabled war veterans]