maim
verb
- to deprive of the use of some body part by wounding, cripple, injured, hindered via bodily injury
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /meɪm/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.
- 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.
- 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.”