maim
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++maim /meɪm/ verb [transitive] INJUREto wound or injure someone very seriously and often permanently 使受重伤，使残废 Landmines still kill or maim about 300 people every month. 地雷每个月仍造成约300人死伤。► see thesaurus at hurt→ See Verb table
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maim• The United Nations estimates that 800 people are killed by mines every month, and another 1,200 are maimed.• Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous; where once he had been mighty, now he was maimed.• For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples.• His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.• A five-year-old girl was maimed in the bombing.• He was going to maim me.• The first was physical courage: the swaggering courtship of danger, injury, maiming or even death.• Surely terrorists cannot believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement?• His characters are frequently maimed, physically or psychologically.Origin maim (1300-1400) Old French mayniermaim verbChinese
seriously to or permanently Corpus wound someone injure very and often
maim
maim /meɪm/
verb [transitive]
Landmines still kill or maim about 300 people every month.
■ to injure yourself or someone else
▪hurt to damage part of your body, or someone else’s body: She slipped on the ice and hurt herself badly. | Be careful you don’t hurt anyone with that knife.
▪injure to hurt yourself quite severely, or to be hurt in an accident or fighting: One of our players has injured his leg, and will be out of the game for weeks. | Four people have been seriously injured on the Arizona highway.
▪wound to deliberately hurt someone using a weapon such as a knife or gun: The gunmen shot and killed twelve people and wounded three others.
▪maim /meɪm/ [usually passive] to hurt someone very severely, especially so that they lose an arm, leg etc, often as the result of an explosion: In countries where there are landmines, people are killed and maimed daily.
▪break to hurt a part of your body by breaking a bone in it: The X-ray showed that I had broken my wrist.
▪bruise to hurt a part of your body when you fall on it or hit it, causing a dark mark to appear on your skin: Cathy fell off her bike and bruised her legs badly.
▪sprain/twist to hurt your knee, wrist, shoulder etc by suddenly twisting it while you are moving: I jumped down from the wall and landed awkwardly, spraining my ankle.
▪strain/pull to hurt one of your muscles by stretching it or using it too much: When you are lifting heavy loads, be careful not to strain a back muscle.
▪dislocate to damage a joint in your body in a way that moves the two parts of the joint out of their normal position: Our best batsman dislocated his shoulder during training.
▪paralyse [usually passive] to make someone lose the ability to move part or all of their body: A climbing accident had left him paralysed from the chest down.
maim /meɪm/
verb [transitive] Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: maynier
to wound or injure someone very seriously and often permanently:Language: Old French
Origin: maynier
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