Maim
[meɪm] or [mem]
Definition
(verb.) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; 'people were maimed by the explosion'.
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
(v.) 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.
(v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
Inputed by Leonard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Cripple, mutilate, disable.
Editor: Ricky
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disable, cripple, mar, mutilate, mangle, disfigure, lame
ANT:Restore, reinvigorate, mend, strengthen
Edited by Darrell
Definition
n. a bruise: an injury: a lameness: the loss of any essential part.—v.t. to bruise: to disfigure: to injure: to lame or cripple: to render defective.—n. Maim′edness the state of being maimed or injured.
Typed by Alphonse
Examples
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was in my own room as usual--just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You wouldn't leave him lying maimed at the bottom of this dreadful place, a moment, if you could bring help to him? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Out of your compassion for me, in this maimed and broken state, you make so much of me--you think so well of me--you love me so dearly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Higg, the son of Snell, at length replied, I am but a maimed man, but that I can at all stir or move was owing to her charitable assistance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To how many maimed and mourning millions is the first and sole angel visitant, him easterns call Azrael! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She then bent over the unconscious man, and, for the first time, kissed him on the cheek, and kissed the poor maimed hand that was nearest to her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Wilmer