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What does maim mean?

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Verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
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Those mines continue to claim the lives of civilians and to injure and maim them.
They kill and maim people and are too afraid to take the consequences of their actions.
Anti-personnel landmines continue to kill or maim indiscriminately long after wars have finished.
The social compact underpinning any society is that citizens are not permitted to kill or maim their fellows.
Lying in wait: mines like these, which litter Afghanistan, kill or maim an average of 60 Afghans every month.
And I don't think any player goes on the field to deliberately hurt or maim someone.

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