Thesaurus / maim
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On land and in sea the animal creation chase and maim, and slay and devour each other.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDWe came in peace and goodwill, not to maim and slay, or to spread alarm and desolation through thy land.
THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADOFRANK AUBREYIf a man maim another, and does not compromise with him, there shall be retaliation in kind.
THE TWO GREAT REPUBLICS: ROME AND THE UNITED STATESJAMES HAMILTON LEWISStill there were left at liberty enough to maim cattle and shoot at landlords.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 147, AUGUST 12, 1914VARIOUSTho' I am not unhealthy, yet I am very weak, know maim therefore I hope it won't be long maim.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTIONVARIOUSNever did he kill or maim either citizen or child, to the secret chagrin of Judge Penniman.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONI have seen them strike and toss a boat right up an end, and maim several on board.
THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICANOLAUDAH EQUIANOA bullet seems to prick rather than to maim him, and he will attack the hunter with the most desperate and persevering fierceness.
CHRISTOPHER CARSONJOHN S. C. ABBOTTHis own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAYOSCAR WILDEThe sailor regards the shark as his natural enemy, and never misses a chance to slay or maim him.
BARNEY BLAKE, THE BOY PRIVATEERHERRICK JOHNSTONEWORDS RELATED TO MAIM
- aborts
- annihilates
- annuls
- axes
- blot out
- breaks down
- butchers
- consumes
- creams
- crushes
- damages
- defaces
- desolates
- despoils
- dismantles
- dispatches
- ends
- eradicates
- erases
- exterminates
- extinguishes
- extirpates
- guts
- impairs
- kills
- levels
- lies waste
- liquidates
- maims
- marauds
- mars
- mutilates
- nukes
- nullifies
- overturns
- quashes
- quells
- ravages
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- razes
- ruins
- sabotages
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- snuffs out
- spoliates
- stamps out
- suppresses
- swallows up
- tears down
- torpedo
- totals
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- vaporizes
- wastes
- waxes
- wipes out
- wrecks
- zaps
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
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- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- immobilize
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
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- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
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- wreck
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- batters
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- puts out of action
- renders incapable
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- sabotages
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- shatters
- shoots down
- spoils
- takes out
- throws monkey wrench in
- totals
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- impairing
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- invalidating
- kiboshing
- knocking out
- maiming
- mangling
- marring
- mutilating
- muzzling
- paralyzing
- pinioning
- prostrating
- putting out of action
- rendering incapable
- ruining
- sabotaging
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- shattering
- shooting down
- spoiling
- taking out
- throwing monkey wrench in
- totaling
- unbracing
- undermining
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- abuse
- blemish
- bruise
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- dilapidate
- discommode
- disserve
- do violence to
- dump on
- get
- hurt
- ill-treat
- impair
- incommode
- inconvenience
- louse up
- maim
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- mar
- mess up
- misuse
- molest
- muck up
- mutilate
- nick
- outrage
- prejudice
- put down
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- scathe
- shatter
- shock
- spoil
- stab
- tarnish
- total
- trample
- traumatize
- tweak
- undermine
- vandalize
- vitiate
- wing
- wound
- wreck
- wrench
- wrong
- zing
- abusing
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- discommoding
- disserving
- doing violence to
- dumping on
- getting
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- ill-treating
- impairing
- incommoding
- inconveniencing
- lousing up
- maiming
- maltreating
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- marring
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- mutilating
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- prejudicing
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- ruining
- sabotaging
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- shocking
- spoiling
- stabbing
- tarnishing
- totaling
- trampling
- traumatizing
- tweaking
- undermining
- vandalizing
- vitiating
- winding
- winging
- wrecking
- wrenching
- wronging
- zinging
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