maim
Example Sentences
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The court’s action imperils the CPSC’s ability to ban products that may maim or kill consumers, including children, giving corporations freer rein to flood the market with dangerous goods.
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2025
In severe cases, he said, offenders can be required to plant two trees for every one they maim.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2023
They can kill or maim trees, leaving scarring that allows an entry point for other tree pests and diseases which can stunt their growth.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2022
The word "monster" means a creature without empathy, without caring, willing to kill or maim or hurt or destroy anything in its path for its own purposes, a sadistic creature lacking normal human capacities.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2022
Indifferent people, if I may so say, can wound us only in heterogeneous parts, maim us in our legs or arms; but the friend can make no pass but at the heart itself.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
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