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Definitions for Maim

[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 paragraphs.
[3] a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
[4] an injury or defect; blemish; lack.
[5] to mutilate, cripple, or disable a part of the body of (a person or animal)
[6] to make defective
[7] obsolete an injury or defect

Words related to Maim

harm, dismember, disfigure, injure, incapacitate, wound, impair, disable, hack, mutilate, mangle, maul, castrate, deface, break, mar, truncate, lame, massacre, damage

Words nearby Maim

maillot, mailman, mailroom, mailsack, mailshot, maim, maiman, maimonides, main, main body, main brace

Origin of Maim

1250–1300; Middle English mayme, variant of mahayme mayhem

Words that may be confused with Maim

maim, mayhem, (see, synonym, study, at, the, current, entry)

Other words from Maim

maimed·ness , noun
maim·er , noun
re·maim , verb (used with object)
self-maimed , adjective
un·maimed , adjective

Word origin for Maim

C14: from Old French mahaignier to wound, probably of Germanic origin

Synonyms for Maim

castrate, disable, disfigure, dismember, hack, harm, impair, incapacitate, injure, mangle, maul, mutilate, wound, batter, blemish, break, crush, damage, deface, disqualify, gimp, hamstring, hog-tie, hurt, lame, mar, massacre, spoil, truncate, warp, mayhem