as in crippling
to cause severe or permanent injury to
on-the-job accidents maim far too many workers every year
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Recent Examples of maiming
Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Karim Kattan, The Dial, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
A lot of the action set pieces involving dismemberment, disembowelment, and general maiming were also practical, albeit with some light digital touch-ups in post-production.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
Horror deals with the fear of violence, maiming, being haunted by things.
—Karim Kattan, The Dial, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maiming
Verb
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Thomas’ absence has been crippling for the Giants in recent years.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
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More importantly, if just one lock were disabled or destroyed, the passage from east to west would be essentially inoperable, crippling the United States and its military defenses.—
Shoshi Parks,
Popular Science,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But then, in April, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo that said the Justice Department would investigate doctors who provide transition care to minors under existing laws, including laws against genital mutilation.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC news,
24 Aug. 2025
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Maxwell Anderson, 34, was convicted on June 6 of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson in the gruesome April 2, 2024, killing and dismemberment of Robinson, 19.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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This is not some bloodthirsty pirate contempt with conquering a pleasure planet like everyone thought, but a calculative master manipulator and tactician who knew the value of Kalgan and used it to acquire a larger prize — incapacitating the Empire’s attack forces.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Troll mercenaries causing mayhem with heavy weapons.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Many Americans remember the mayhem when Katrina made landfall off Louisiana on August 29, 2005.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The man, identified as Cash, opened fire, wounding the man.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Russia launched a large-scale attack on Kyiv overnight, killing 15 people, wounding 48 others and damaging buildings, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Others would be afraid to return to Mexico or Central America because of the violence in their native countries.—
Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Watkin is just one out of the thousands of Hoosier educators who have suffered injuries due to student violence.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Last week, a 23-year-old opened fire outside a church at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 19 other people before dying by suicide.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Parollee Dawain Hopson lived a free life for about five weeks before landing back behind bars, this time for allegedly stabbing two people to death at a Detroit pool party over the summer and injuring two others with the same knife.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In 2013, 15-year-old Daniel Marsh was accused of killing and mutilating the bodies of an elderly couple living nearby his father in California.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Maiming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maiming. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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