Maim

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at batter1.
  • v. To make imperfect or defective; impair.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
  • v. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To disable by wounding or mutilation; deprive of, or of the use of, a necessary constituent part, as of the body, or, figuratively, of anything; in old law, to deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person less able to defend himself in fighting, or to annoy his adversary; mutilate. See mayhem.
  • Synonyms Mangle, etc. See mutilate.
  • n. A disabling wound or mutilation: the deprivation of a necessary part, or of the use of it, as a limb; a crippling, or that which cripples; in old law, deprivation by injury or removal of the use of some member serviceable in fight or for self-protection.
  • n. See the quotation, and mayhem.
  • n.
  • n. A hurt or wound in general; an injury.
  • n. A defect or blemish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
  • Verb Form
    maimed    maiming    maims   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    injure    wound   
    Variant
    mayhem   
    Hyponym
    cripple    mutilate    mar    lame   
    Form
    maimer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cripple    mutilate    mangle    injure    disable    impair    crippling    mutilation    injury    bemaim   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ame    Boehme    Graeme    Mayme    Sejm    acclaim    aflame    aim    ashame    ballgame   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    deform    lame    diseased    mangle    disable    infirm    deaf    malformed    defective    unable