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maim

verb

  1. to deprive of the use of some body part by wounding, cripple, injured, hindered via bodily injury
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /meɪm/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.

  1. A severe, serious wound.

    it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee

verb

Etymology: From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.

  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

    He was maimed by a bear.

    Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.