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Maims vs Mains - What's the difference?

maims | mains |

As a verb maims

is (maim).

As a noun mains is

.

maims

English

Verb

(head)
  • (maim)
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    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

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    mains

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia mains) (-)
  • English plurals
  • (chiefly, British) The domestic electrical power supply.
  • I plugged it into the mains and it blew up!
  • The pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings.
  • (Scotland) The farm attached to a mansion house.
  • See also

    * water main

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