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maim

[meym] / meɪm /


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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

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

But he reasoned that if they really wanted to make a man of him they would not really try to kill him or maim him.

From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

No matter what happens to them — no matter how the world paints them, vilifies them, maims them — they were here, and at least for a moment, they owned their own lives.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2019

Agnieszka is a simple village girl who is gifted to her local wizard, The Dragon, as payment for thwarting the advance of the ominous Wood, which kills or maims any who enter it.

From The Guardian May 21, 2019

It’s a pervasive scourge that damages all of us, that directly maims the lives of women and leaves us all in chains.

From Salon May 16, 2016

Although it maims its victims, brucellosis seldom kills them.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims,** he is reported to have said, “for I see well we be in great peril of death.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

But many other protesters — understandably aroused by videos of starving, maimed, or dying Gazan children — aren’t thinking that far ahead.

From Seattle Times May 6, 2024

As Angela meets with the maimed workers, they often tailor their testimonials to what they think will be most appealing to the corporation, their actual circumstance reduced to a pity-inducing performance.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2024

Many more are maimed by the venom’s muscle-destroying toxins, as existing treatments are largely ineffective at preventing tissue death.

From Science Magazine Jan. 16, 2024

Those who had lost loved ones in the war, or had been crippled or maimed, could not so easily put sorrowful memories aside.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Why, then, did Mullin so freely refuse to apologize to the Republican committee chairman for joking about his maiming?

From Slate Mar. 18, 2026

Navy has faced, maiming more ships than any other means of attack since World War II, according to a U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

But when this colossal chess game ends with the Mistress of Mayhem maiming her adversary, “The Art of Personal Chaos” transitions into something even more extraordinary.

From Salon Apr. 16, 2025

Polio ran riot in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, killing and maiming scores of children.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2024

“Most people are going to have a hard enough time accepting that we’re not monsters, without reports about us maiming innocent people,” Clancy said.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken




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