Maim vs Scar - 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 mark the skin permanently.
* Shakespeare
To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
As verbs the difference between maim and scar
is that maim is to wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body while scar is to mark the skin permanently.As a noun scar is
a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.maim
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* maimerAnagrams
* * ----scar
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(wikipedia scar)Etymology 1
Conflation of (etyl) . More at shard.Synonyms
* cicatriceVerb
(scarr)- Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.