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Cosa (chi) è Maim - definizione

ACT OF PHYSICAL INJURY THAT DEGRADES THE APPEARANCE OR FUNCTION OF ANY LIVING BODY
Maiming; MAIM; Maim; Mutilated; Mutilate; Mutilating; Animal mutilation
  • Police surgeon]]'s drawing showing the mutilated body of [[Catherine Eddowes]], [[Jack the Ripper]]'s fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888.
  • [[Fredegund]] ordering the mutilation of Olericus

maim         
(maims, maiming, maimed)
To maim someone means to injure them so badly that part of their body is permanently damaged.
Mines have been scattered in rice paddies and jungles, maiming and killing civilians...
VERB: V n
Maim         
·vt To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
II. Maim ·v The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
III. Maim ·v The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. ·see Mayhem.
IV. Maim ·vt To Mutilate; to Cripple; to Injure; to Disable; to Impair.
maim         
¦ verb wound or injure (someone) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.
Origin
ME: from OFr. mahaignier, of unknown origin.

Wikipedia

Mutilation

Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life. It can also refer to alterations that render something inferior, ugly, dysfunctional, or imperfect. In modern times, the term has an overwhelmingly negative connotation.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per Maim
1. Such explosives maim or kill several people every month.
2. Explosions maim or kill many Cambodians each year.
3. We asked why young British citizens had decided to bomb and maim their fellow British citizens.
4. I am looking once more at that face, the same profile, with the terrible maim.
5. Landmines kill or maim 8, 000 to 10, 000 children every year.