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Webster 1828 Edition


Maiming

MA'IMING

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ppr.
Disabling by depriving of the use of a limb; crippling; rendering lame or defective.

Definition 2024


maiming

maiming

English

Verb

maiming

  1. present participle of maim

Noun

maiming (plural maimings)

  1. The act by which somebody is maimed.
    • William Cobbett
      They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.