Maimed vs Feeble - What's the difference?
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(maim)
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.
Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France
, work=BBC Sport
Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
(obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.
Maimed is a related term of feeble.
As verbs the difference between maimed and feeble
is that maimed is (maim) while feeble is (obsolete) to make feeble; to enfeeble.As an adjective feeble is
deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.maimed
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(head)maim
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* * ----feeble
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(er)- Though she appeared old and feeble , she could still throw a ball.
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- That was a feeble excuse for an example.
