What's the difference between injure and maim?

Injure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (2) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
  • (3) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (4) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
  • (5) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (6) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (7) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (8) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (9) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
  • (10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
  • (11) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
  • (12) A principal function of GPIb is its attachment to von Willebrand Factor (vWF) on injured blood vessels which leads to the adhesion of platelets to these vessels.
  • (13) Two people were injured and taken to hospital, but it is still unclear who was responsible.
  • (14) The hearts were significantly injured by 40 min global ischemia followed by 20 min reperfusion.
  • (15) The maximum functional response of catecholamine injured hearts to stimulation of alpha- and beta-adrenoceptors reduced in both age groups, while the sensitivity of the myocardium to beta-adrenoceptor agonists in mature rats increased.
  • (16) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
  • (17) Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in balloon-injured rat carotid artery express tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) at a time when they are migrating from the media to the intima.
  • (18) The soma of the injured neutron has a dense perinuclear ring of RNA.
  • (19) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.
  • (20) These observations provide biochemical support for the hypothesis that the reparative process of injured tissue in the fetal rabbit proceeds in an attempt to reconstitute normality, i.e.

Maim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
  • (v. t.) To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
  • (v.) The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
  • (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (2) The violence has maimed a further 172 children, and injured a total of 1,185 civilians.
  • (3) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
  • (4) Stephen O’Brien, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official, said he was horrified by the total disrespect for civilian life in the conflict, which has killed at least 250,000 people and maimed up to four times that number.
  • (5) It is a blow to the heart: an atrocity whose purpose was to kill and maim as many children and teenagers as possible.
  • (6) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.
  • (7) The maim beam wil be directed in the axis of the condyle for sagittal tomography and perpendicularly for frontal tomography.
  • (8) The images coming in to the Guardian's picture desk have reflected the last few days' carnage in an even more graphic way than usual: dead and maimed children in bombed-out Gaza or bodies of victims lying in Ukrainian cornfields.
  • (9) One of the cluster bombs we saw in northern Yemen was made in the UK Villagers told us about how people have been killed or maimed by the unexploded, but still live, bomblets.
  • (10) The aptly-named doctrine of "heroic restraint", imposed on Nato troops in Afghanistan by General Petraeus, forces our soldiers to accept personal risk at an unprecedented level – greater even than the horrific dangers they already face in this lethal conflict, where so many of our brave men have been killed and maimed."
  • (11) They removed dictators, they gave ordinary men and women a voice, and perhaps most important of all, they put the problems of an oppressed, forsaken people on the global political agenda – people just like those who, before Wednesday's ceasefire, were being killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
  • (12) "Cardiovascular disease maims and kills people through coronary heart disease, peripheral arterial disease and stroke.
  • (13) Then, the movement to legalize abortion rested on the following: 1) illegal abortions were killing and maiming women; 2) women should have a backup to ineffective contraception; 3) the number of unwanted pregnancies should be reduced; only wanted children should be born, as a matter of child welfare; 4) women should have the right to make the abortion decision; 5) everything possible should be done to change the economic and domestic circumstances forcing women into unwanted pregnancies.
  • (14) We passively accept that scores of young men in our country will inevitably die each year after being circumcised and that many more will be permanently maimed.
  • (15) Logical, yes, but politically it's a no-brainer: why risk the wrath of the Daily Mail for being soft on drugs, even if it does mean passing up the chance to ensure these concoctions – produced and marketed by manufacturers who work one step ahead of the law – are better controlled, dosed and labelled, and therefore less likely to maim or kill.
  • (16) Egyptians, and much of the world, watched in horror as the military and police stormed into the camps , torched tents while people were still sleeping inside them, and killed and maimed indiscriminately.
  • (17) He recalled taking on able-bodied runners in Mozambique to give confidence to people maimed by landmines.
  • (18) "Cardiovascular disease [CVD] maims and kills people through coronary heart disease, peripheral arterial disease and stroke.
  • (19) Iran, of all nations, with full understanding of their horrific effects, could now ensure that they are never again allowed to maim and kill across the region.
  • (20) After all, the evidence of what mechanisation was doing to people (rather than what they were doing with it) was all around him in 1891 in the form of maimed bodies and minds imprisoned by repetitive tasks.