Maim vs Distort - What's the difference?
maim | distort |
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 bring something out of shape.
(ergative) To become misshapen.
To give a false or misleading account of
(obsolete) distorted; misshapen
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between maim and distort
is that maim is to wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body while distort is to bring something out of shape.As an adjective distort is
(obsolete) distorted; misshapen.maim
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
*Derived terms
* maimerAnagrams
* * ----distort
English
Verb
(en verb)- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Derived terms
* distorterAdjective
(en adjective)- Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .