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to maim
01
to cause serious and often permanent injury to a person, typically by disabling a part of their body
Transitive: to maim sb/sth
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
maim
3rd person singular
maims
Present participle
maiming
Past simple
maimed
Past participle
maimed
Examples
The explosion maimed several individuals, leaving them with severe injuries.
Lexical Tree
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