maim
11maim — [v] cripple, put out of action batter, blemish, break, castrate, crush, damage, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, disqualify, gimp*, hack, hamstring*, harm, hog tie*, hurt, impair, incapacitate, injure, lame, mangle, mar, massacre, maul,… …
12maim — ► VERB ▪ wound or injure (someone) so that part of the body is permanently damaged. ORIGIN Old French mahaignier …
13maim — [13] Maim and mayhem [15] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to a Vulgar Latin verb *mahagnāre ‘wound’, whose origins are unknown. This passed into Old French as mahaignier (whose probable Anglo Norman derivative *mahangler was the source …
14maim — [13] Maim and mayhem [15] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to a Vulgar Latin verb *mahagnāre ‘wound’, whose origins are unknown. This passed into Old French as mahaignier (whose probable Anglo Norman derivative *mahangler was the source …
15maim — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo French maheimer, mahaigner more at mayhem Date: 14th century 1. to commit the felony of mayhem upon 2. to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously • maimer noun Synonyms:… …
16maim — maimedness, n. maimer, n. /maym/, v.t. 1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life. 2. to impair; make essentially defective: The essay was maimed by deletion of important… …
17maim — UK [meɪm] / US verb [transitive] Word forms maim : present tense I/you/we/they maim he/she/it maims present participle maiming past tense maimed past participle maimed to injure someone seriously, especially permanently The boy had been maimed in …
18maim — To disable or cripple by an injury. * * * maim mām vt 1) to commit the felony of mayhem upon 2) to wound seriously: MUTILATE, DISABLE * * * (mām) 1. to disable by a wound; to dismember by violence. 2. a dismemberment or disablement effected… …
19maim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. cripple, disfigure, mutilate, lame, impair. See deterioration. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. mutilate, mangle, cripple, incapacitate, disable, disfigure, injure, hack, truncate, impair, disqualify,… …
20maim — [[t]me͟ɪm[/t]] maims, maiming, maimed VERB To maim someone means to injure them so badly that part of their body is permanently damaged. [V n] Mines have been scattered in rice paddies and jungles, maiming and killing civilians... [V n] One man… …
