maim• The United Nations estimates that 800 people are killed by mines every month, and another 1,200 are maimed.• Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous; where once he had been mighty, now he was maimed.• For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples.• His oh-so-careful slimygrin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.• A five-year-old girl was maimed in the bombing.• He was going to maim me.• The first was physical courage: the swaggeringcourtship of danger, injury, maiming or even death.• Surely terrorists cannot believe that killing and maimingordinary people is an achievement?• His characters are frequently maimed, physically or psychologically.