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Maim logo #10101) Badly injure 2) Badly wound 3) Batter badly 4) Cause bodily injury 5) Cause serious injury to 6) Commit mayhem 7) Cripple 8) Cripple and then some 9) Critically injure 10) Damage 11) Deface 12) Deform in battle 13) Disable 14) Disfigure 15) Do serious damage 16) Do serious damage to 17) Do some serious damage
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Maim logo #10101) Deform 2) Disable 3) Mutilate
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maim logo #21214v. to inflict a serious bodily injury, including mutilation or any harm which limits the victim's ability to function physically. Originally, in English common law it meant to cut off or permanently cripple a body part like an arm, leg, hand or foot. In criminal law, such serious harm becomes an "aggravated" assault, which is a felony subject to a ...
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Maim logo #21002• (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. • (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem. • (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a pers...
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maim logo #20973To disable or cripple by an injury. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Maim logo #21213(v) Maim is the inflicting of severe bodily harm to a person by an aggravated assault resulting in injury, mutilation or incapability to do physical functions.
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Maim logo #20972Maim (mām) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Maimed (māmd); present participle & verbal noun Maiming .] [ Middle English maimen , Old French mahaignier , mehaignier , meshaignier , co...
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Maim logo #20972Maim noun [ Written in law language maihem , and mayhem .] [ Old French mehaing . See Maim , v. ] 1. 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.
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Maim logo #21212This is a technical word necessary to be introduced into all indictments for mayhem; the words "feloniously did maim," must of necessity be inserted, because no other word, or any circumlocution, will answer the same purpose. Crim. law. To deprive a person of such part of his body as to render him less able in fighting or defending himself than h.....
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Maim logo #22642To inflict serious bodily injury, including mutilation, disfigurement, or any harm that limits the victim's ability to function physically. Originally, in English common law it meant to cut off or permanently cripple a part of the body such as an arm, leg, hand, or foot. In criminal law, such serious harm can turn an ordinary assault into an aggrav...
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maim logo #20400[v] - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
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maim logo #21009maim To inflict a severe and permanent injury on a person or animal, especially one that renders a limb useless: 'One young man was killed and two others were mauled and maimed by a lion at the San Francisco zoo in December, 2007.' Although not directly related to this malle- unit, 'maim' is indirectly associated with it.
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maim logo #23665[SAT terms] injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
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