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  • 1. maim
  • Rhymes with Maim
  • Maim in a sentence
  • Quotes about Maim
Table of Contents
  • 1. maim
  • Rhymes with Maim
  • Maim in a sentence
  • Quotes about Maim
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. maim

verb. ['ˈmeɪm'] injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.

Synonyms

  • injure
  • mutilate
  • mar
  • lame
  • cripple

Antonyms

  • fit
  • strong
  • strengthen

Rhymes with Maim

  • proclaim
  • postgame
  • exclaim
  • disclaim
  • reclaim
  • overcame
  • inflame
  • declaim
  • ballgame
  • rename
  • defame
  • became
  • aflame
  • acclaim
  • swaim
  • graeme
  • frame
  • fraim
  • flame
  • flaim
  • claim
  • brame
  • blame
  • ashame
  • tame
  • shame
  • sejm
  • same
  • rhame
  • name

Sentences with maim


1. Noun, singular or mass
Tigers also have razor-sharp claws that they use to fight each other as well as maim and kill prey.

2. Adjective
These traps were deep holes lined with sharp spikes that would kill or seriously maim anyone who fell in.

3. Verb, base form
Infections and secondary diseases facilitated by leaf damage will maim or kill your orchid.

Quotes about maim


1. 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
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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