Maim vs Bruise - What's the difference?
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To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed , comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
To become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
* Thackeray
(medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
Maim is a related term of bruise.
As verbs the difference between maim and bruise
is that maim is to wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body while bruise is to strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.As a noun bruise is
(medicine) a purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.maim
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(en verb)Synonyms
*Derived terms
* maimerAnagrams
* * ----bruise
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(wikipedia bruise)Alternative forms
* bruize (obsolete)Verb
(bruis)- Bananas bruise easily.
- I bruise easily.
- Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.