'Maim' definitions:
Definition of 'maim'
(from WordNet)
verb
Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
Definition of 'Maim'
From: GCIDE
- Maim \Maim\ (m[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maimed (m[=a]md);p. pr. & vb. n. Maiming.] [OE. maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It. magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. mac'ha[~n]a to mutilate, m[=a]c'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mang[=o]n to lack, perh. akin to E. mangle to lacerate. Cf. Mayhem.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. [1913 Webster]
- My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To mutilate; mangle; cripple. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Maim'
From: GCIDE
- Maim \Maim\, n. [Written in law language maihem, and mayhem.] [OF. mehaing. See Maim, v.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem. [1913 Webster]
- Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'maim'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- bark,
- batter,
- blemish,
- bloody,
- break,
- bugger,
- bung up,
- burn,
- castrate,
- chafe,
- check,
- chip,
- claw,
- crack,
- craze,
- cripple,
- cut,
- damage,
- de-energize,
- debilitate,
- defoliate,
- denude,
- disable,
- disenable,
- disfigure,
- dismember,
- drain,
- draw and quarter,
- emasculate,
- enfeeble,
- flay,
- fracture,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- fret,
- gall,
- gash,
- hamstring,
- harm,
- hobble,
- hors de combat,
- hurt,
- impair,
- inactivate,
- incapacitate,
- incise,
- injure,
- kibosh,
- lacerate,
- lame,
- make mincemeat of,
- mangle,
- massacre,
- maul,
- mayhem,
- mutilate,
- peel,
- pick to pieces,
- pierce,
- pull apart,
- puncture,
- put,
- queer,
- queer the works,
- rend,
- rip,
- run,
- rupture,
- sabotage,
- savage,
- scald,
- scorch,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- scuff,
- shred,
- skin,
- slash,
- slit,
- spike,
- sprain,
- stab,
- stick,
- strain,
- strip,
- take apart,
- tear,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to tatters,
- traumatize,
- unfit,
- weaken,
- wing,
- wound,
- wreck,
- wrench