Crossword-Solution: MAIM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Maim | v. t. | 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. |
| Maim | v. t. | To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. |
| 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. |
| Maim | v. | The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MAIM | anagram | AMMI, IMAM, IMMA, MAMI, MIAM, MIMA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MAIM (5)
Next came one Who mourn’d in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim’d his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and sham’d his Worshipers: _Dagon_ his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear’d in _Azotus_, dreaded through the Coast Of _Palestine_, in _Gath_ and _Ascalon_, And _Accaron_ and _Gaza’s_ frontier bounds.
How would you like to be treated so?” “That’s always your way, Maim—always sailing in to help somebody before they’re hurt.
And Clement, speaking softly in Ralph's ear, did him to wit that this was the token of the lord who had gotten the castle in those days, and was tyrant of the town; and how that he had so many men-at-arms ready to do his bidding that none in the town was safe from him if he deemed it more for his pleasure and profit to rob or maim, or torment or slay, than to suffer them to live peaceably.
This too I know--and wise it were If each could know the same-- That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
Pascal laid aside mathematics; Origen doctored his body with a knife; every day some one is thus mortifying his dearest interests and desires, and, in Christ’s words, entering maim into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Quotes with MAIM (3)
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill. It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It’s addictive. It’s all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It’s quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen. But we…
It’s one thing to protect yourself,” Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. “That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?” I shrugged. “A seven-figure civil suit?
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 322 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).