英语词汇“maim”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINmaim

Origin:

1300-1400 Old French maynier

VERB TABLE

maim

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	maim
	he, she, it	maims
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	maimed
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have maimed
	he, she, it	has maimed
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had maimed
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will maim
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have maimed

Continuous Form
Present	I	am maiming
	he, she, it	is maiming
	you, we, they	are maiming
Past	I, he, she, it	was maiming
	you, we, they	were maiming
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been maiming
	he, she, it	has been maiming
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been maiming
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be maiming
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been maiming

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A five-year-old girl was maimed in the bombing.
Surely terrorists cannot believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement?

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples.
He was going to maim me.
His characters are frequently maimed, physically or psychologically.
His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.
The first was physical courage: the swaggering courtship of danger, injury, maiming or even death.
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.

THESAURUSto 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

[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.

Longman Language Activatorto permanently injure someone► cripple

to injure someone's legs or back so that they can never move or walk properly again: · The driver, who had been taking drugs, crippled the young woman for life.· Richard was crippled in the bombing of 1984, and had been in a wheelchair ever since.

► maim

to injure someone very seriously and permanently, especially in an accident or deliberate attack: · Surely terrorists cannot believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement?

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► kill

· People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed.· Accidentally detonated, they kill or maim some 25, 000 people a year, mostly civilians.· In what way is it a humanitarian act to kill, maim and wound innocent men, women and children?· Every 22 minutes a man, woman or child is killed or maimed by a land mine.· Both are prepared to kill or maim innocents in pursuit of a cause.· Although no one was injured, the bombing plot had the potential to kill and maim many people, experts said.· Several times he witnessed strokes which would have killed or maimed if they had been allowed to connect with flesh and bone.· We kill, maim and terrorize other humans.