(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.
Mam
Definition:
(n.) Mamma.
Example Sentences:
(1) PFP-MAM is separated by capillary GC and identified mass spectrometrically by selected ion monitoring (SIM).
(2) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.
(3) The use of monoclonal antibodies and alpha MAM-6 indicated that the majority of TEC were of medullary origin.
(4) The results suggest that rats exposed to MAM in varying doses would be useful for evaluating the developmental process of neurons and its unification.
(5) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(6) Liver microsomes isolated from rats fed the 3 diets metabolized MAM to formic acid and methanol in vitro, but liver microsomes from rats fed the continuous ethanol diet were 12 to 15 times more active than liver microsomes from rats fed the control diet.
(7) Too proud to ask for help, the alarm bells rang in the week before his death when he accepted a tenner from his mam.
(8) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
(9) To further analyze the apparent colocalization of ricin and MAM-6 in the perinuclear Golgi region, immunogold cytochemistry on ultracryosections was performed.
(10) The brain weights in the MNU- and MAM-treated pups on postnatal day 22 were significantly less than those in the control pups.
(11) MAM-6 might be considered as a marker of severe (premalignant) dysplasia in adenomas of the large intestine.
(12) Microradiographical and histological investigations showed that the cranial base lordosis was more pronounced in the MAM rats than in the controls, and that the width of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis was reduced mainly due to reduction in the central zone.
(13) These results suggest that working memory disorders of MAM rats on radial maze tasks may be due to the lowering of cholinergic functions in their hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
(14) Cumulative properties indicate that MAM is the guinea pig analogue of human Mo1 and mouse Mac-1.
(15) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(16) One of the antigens, MAM-6, appeared to be an important epithelial marker, present in all normal and neoplastic breast tissue samples, in about 80% of non-mammary normal tissues and in more than 90% of non-mammary epithelial tumours.
(17) Pretreatment with CCl4 caused not only early death from chemical toxicity of MAM but also an increase in small-bowel tumors.
(18) Unlike paramagnetic material, MAM appears effective as a small-bowel contrast material.
(19) 5HT-immunoreactive neurons in the MAM-rats were reduced in number and irregularly distributed in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei compared with those in the control.
(20) Treatment with MAM, 3 to 6 hr after Con A addition, partially blocks the enhancement.