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Maim vs Incapacitate - What's the difference?

maim | incapacitate |

As verbs the difference between maim and incapacitate

is that maim is to wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body while incapacitate is to make incapable (of doing something.

maim

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.

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    Derived terms

    * maimer

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    incapacitate

    English

    Verb

    (incapacitat)
  • to make incapable (of doing something)
    • The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head