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Examples of maim
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God does not kill, maim, or rape, whether the acts are done to bodies or minds.
From the economist.com
I mean, good grief, most startups would kill and maim to have that kind of board.
From the techcrunch.com
These weapons have absolutely no purpose other than to kill or maim human beings.
From the time.com
Best to smash delete rip maim kill destroy burn with fire and brimstone delete.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Unexploded bomblets scattered over broad areas can kill and maim people for years.
From the nytimes.com
When a terrorist tries to kill or maim them, he is trying to kill an American.
From the thestate.com
On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim.
From the time.com
We be nice to them, they be nice to US, until they kill and maim our soldiers.
From the washingtontimes.com
Dangerous drivers kill and maim people whereas magpies defending their nests don't.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Headley faces life in prison for conspiracy to maim or murder persons abroad.
From the voanews.com
The use of knives and belts was designed to maim and disfigure rather than to kill.
From the en.wikipedia.org
All the cuts will hurt us, but cuts to workers'health and safety will kill and maim.
From the guardian.co.uk
The pit bull may maim and kill you, but it's not going to change your heart or mind.
From the freep.com
Considerably more likely to snap and maim someone is former childstar Corey Feldman.
From the hecklerspray.com
But its current function is to maim and distort the truth, not to enlighten.
From the infowars.com
An improvised explosive device is meant to disrupt as well as kill and maim.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
It's no different with terrorists who kill and maim with no restraint and no regret.
From the bostonherald.com
Troops were sent to shoot, hang or maim a considerable number of the rebels.
From the denverpost.com
- Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
- (maimed) having a part of the body crippled or disabled
- (maimed) wounded: people who are wounded; "they had to leave the wounded where they fell"
- Mutilation or maiming is an act or physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body, usually without causing death.
- To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body
- (Maiming) or mutilation which involves the loss of, or incapacity to use, a bodily member, is and has been practised by many societies with various cultural and religious significances, and is also a customary form of physical punishment, especially applied on the principle of an eye for an eye.
- (Maiming) A situational occurrence when any person involved in the disturbance will be permanently physically damaged or deformed as a result of an action by another. (414)
- To cripple or mutilate in any way; to injure a person in a way that deprives him or her of the use of any limb or other part of his or her body; to seriously wound, disfigure, or disable. (See also mayhem.)
- To injure someone very badly by violence.
