verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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kill
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People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed .
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Accidentally detonated, they kill or maim some 25, 000 people a year, mostly civilians.
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In what way is it a humanitarian act to kill , maim and wound innocent men, women and children?
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Every 22 minutes a man, woman or child is killed or maimed by a land mine.
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Both are prepared to kill or maim innocents in pursuit of a cause.
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Although no one was injured, the bombing plot had the potential to kill and maim many people, experts said.
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Several times he witnessed strokes which would have killed or maimed if they had been allowed to connect with flesh and bone.
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We kill , maim and terrorize other humans.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A five-year-old girl was maimed in the bombing.
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Surely terrorists cannot believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples.
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He was going to maim me.
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His characters are frequently maimed, physically or psychologically.
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His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.
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The first was physical courage: the swaggering courtship of danger, injury, maiming or even death.
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The United Nations estimates that 800 people are killed by mines every month, and another 1, 200 are maimed.
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Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous; where once he had been mighty, now he was maimed.