Maims vs Mains - What's the difference?
maims | mains |
(maim)
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
*
*: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.
English plurals
(chiefly, British) The domestic electrical power supply.
The pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings.
(Scotland) The farm attached to a mansion house.
As a verb maims
is (maim).As a noun mains is
.maims
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *maim
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
*Derived terms
* maimerAnagrams
* * ----mains
English
Noun
(wikipedia mains) (-)- I plugged it into the mains and it blew up!