maim

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One legacy we don’t hear anything about in Turning Point is how the war continues to kill, maim, and sicken the Vietnamese people.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2024

Only the owner of a carrier or racing pigeon can injure, kill, maim, trap or detain their bird.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

"Even if they're fed and sterilized, cats retain their instinct to hunt. They are not native wildlife—they are an invasive species. They terrorize, maim, and kill animals who don't stand a chance against them."

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2022

Persuaded, that Napoleon was marching troops, to maim and dissolve the national representation, they demanded with loud cries, that the national guard should be summoned, to protect the chamber.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron