See maim on Wiktionary
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"text": "Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "شَوِهَ"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "հաշմանդամ դարձնել"
},
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "殘害"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "runnella"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "mutiler"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "estropier"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "fanar"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "toller"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "eivar"
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"roman": "dasaxičreba",
"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "დასახიჩრება"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "verstümmeln"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "verschandeln"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "limlesta"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "menomare"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "mutilare"
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"alt": "ふぐにする",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "不具にする"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "불구로 만들다"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "dēbilitō"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "mutilō"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "whakatūroro"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "whakahauā"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
"word": "lemleste"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"word": "okaleczać"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"word": "уве́чить"
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"roman": "izuvéčitʹ",
"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"word": "изуве́чить"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"word": "кале́чить"
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"word": "искале́чить"
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"roman": "uródovatʹ",
"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"word": "уро́довать"
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "scn",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "scn",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "scn",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"roman": "nívečyty",
"sense": "to cause permanent loss of a part of the body",
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"word": "ні́вечити"
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"ref": "1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee",
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"expansion": "Germanic",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.",
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"form": "maims",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"ref": "1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A severe, serious wound."
],
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"severe",
"severe"
],
[
"wound",
"wound"
]
],
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"(obsolete) A severe, serious wound."
],
"tags": [
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]
}
],
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"ipa": "/meɪm/"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-us-maim.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪm"
}
],
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}
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{
"word": "maym"
}
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"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
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"Alternative form of maym"
],
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"maym",
"maym#Middle_English"
]
],
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"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "maim"
}
{
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"args": {
"1": "txb",
"2": "ine-toc-pro",
"3": "*meim"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Tocharian *meim",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "txb",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "",
"4": "*mod-ye/o-"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "meditor"
},
"expansion": "Latin meditor",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "midithir"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish midithir",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mētior"
},
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{
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"expansion": "Tocharian A mem",
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],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor and Old Irish midithir), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian A mem.",
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"Tocharian B nouns",
"Tocharian B terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Tocharian B terms derived from Proto-Tocharian",
"Tocharian B terms inherited from Proto-Tocharian",
"Tocharian B terms with usage examples"
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{
"english": "Completely turned inward [is] his thought and spirit.",
"text": "Enenkaś paspārtau cwi maim palskw attsaik.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"thought, thinking"
],
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}
],
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}
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