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maim

verb/meɪm/

B2CEFR level
42/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To wound or injure someone so as to cause lasting disfigurement or loss of function.

The blast maimed several bystanders, costing two of them their hands.

Similar: mutilate, disfigure, cripple

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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