maim

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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

But doctors warn that such “button batteries” can maim and kill.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2024

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

These approaches Bruce is said to have rendered difficult by pitfalls, and even by caltrops to maim the horses.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter