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Maim

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.

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Cripple 76% connected

One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

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Lame 76% connected

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Mutilate 76% connected

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

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Injure 76% connected

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…

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Mutilator 74% connected

One who mutilates.

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Mutilator 74% connected

One who mutilates.

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-able unknown · 78% connection

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…

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Able superl. · 78% connection

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications…

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Acquit verb · 78% connection

To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself v…

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Aggravate verb · 78% connection

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

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Appearance noun · 78% connection

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

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Arm noun · 78% connection

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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Attenuate verb · 78% connection

To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or…

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Bargain noun · 78% connection

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to…

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Bastion noun · 78% connection

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that…

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Checkmate verb · 78% connection

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from…

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Combat noun · 78% connection

the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhapp…

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Comparative adjective · 78% connection

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

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Defend verb · 78% connection

To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, t…

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Disarm verb · 78% connection

To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

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Dishonor verb · 78% connection

To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to st…

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Dislimb verb · 78% connection

To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

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Dismember verb · 78% connection

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

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Dispauper verb · 78% connection

To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.

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