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S vs Maim - What's the difference?

s | maim |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb maim is

to wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    maim

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * maimer

    Anagrams

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