maim
[ meym ]
/ meɪm /
verb (used with object)
to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
to impair; make essentially defective: The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.
noun Obsolete.
a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
an injury or defect; blemish; lack.
Origin of maim
SYNONYMS FOR maim
1
Maim,
lacerate,
mangle,
mutilate indicate the infliction of painful and severe injuries on the body. To
maim is to injure by giving a disabling wound, or by depriving a person of one or more members or their use:
maimed in an accident. To
lacerate is to inflict severe cuts and tears on the flesh or skin:
to lacerate an arm. To
mangle is to chop undiscriminatingly or to crush or rend by blows or pressure, as if by machinery:
bodies mangled in a train wreck. To
mutilate is to injure the completeness or beauty of a body, especially by cutting off an important member:
to mutilate a statue, a tree, a person.
2 injure, disable, deface, mar.
OTHER WORDS FROM maim
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH maim
maim mayhem (see synonym study at the current entry)Words nearby maim
maillot,
mailman,
mailroom,
mailsack,
mailshot,
maim,
maiman,
maimonides,
main,
main body,
main brace
Example sentences from the Web for maim
British Dictionary definitions for maim
maim
/ (meɪm) /
verb (tr)
to mutilate, cripple, or disable a part of the body of (a person or animal)
to make defective
noun
obsolete
an injury or defect
Derived forms of maim
maimedness (ˈmeɪmɪdnɪs), noun maimer, nounWord Origin for maim
C14: from Old French
mahaignier to wound, probably of Germanic origin