Maim vs Maimedness - What's the difference?
maim | maimedness |
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.
The state of being maimed.
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As a verb maim
is to wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.As a noun maimedness is
the state of being maimed.maim
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* maimerAnagrams
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Noun
(-)- Freedom from all defects and imperfections, diseases, and distempers, infirmities and deformities, maimedness and monstrous shapes.