If you try to stare down a bear, it will maim you.
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Maim
/meɪm/
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American cluster bombs still kill and maim people in Southeast Asia.
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He was maimed by a bear.
Source: wiktionary
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
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