Maimed vs Hobbled - What's the difference?
maimed | hobbled | Related terms |
(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.
(hobble)
(en noun) (usually in plural )
Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
An unsteady, off-balance step.
To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
To walk lame, or unevenly.
* Dryden
(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
* Jeffreys
To perplex; to embarrass.
Maimed is a related term of hobbled.
As verbs the difference between maimed and hobbled
is that maimed is (maim) while hobbled is (hobble).maimed
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Verb
(head)maim
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(en verb)Synonyms
*Derived terms
* maimerAnagrams
* * ----hobbled
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Verb
(head)hobble
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Synonyms
* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.