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Maim vs Maimedness - What's the difference?

maim | maimedness |

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

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.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * maimer

    Anagrams

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    maimedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being maimed.
  • * Bolton
  • Freedom from all defects and imperfections, diseases, and distempers, infirmities and deformities, maimedness and monstrous shapes.