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Maiming vs Aiming - What's the difference?

maiming | aiming |

As verbs the difference between maiming and aiming

is that maiming is while aiming is .

As nouns the difference between maiming and aiming

is that maiming is the act by which somebody is maimed while aiming is the act of one who aims.

maiming

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is maimed.
  • * (William Cobbett)
  • They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings , hangings, and burnings.

    aiming

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who aims.
  • * 1867 , William Hickman Smith Aubrey, The National and Domestic History of England
  • The aimings after the impossible, represented by the Uniformity Act of 1549, had failed