transitive. To disfigure, mutilate (a person, his body); to impair (the mind); to injure (a thing).

To strike or cut off (a limb). Obsolete.

transitive. To separate, remove; to tear off, sever.

transitive. To mutilate, maim; to cut short, dock; spec. to cut off the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.

transitive. To cut off a limb or the limbs of, to dismember, mutilate. Cf. limb, v. 1a. †Also reflexive.

transitive. To deprive of limbs or members; to cut off the limbs or members of; to tear or divide limb from limb. (In quot. 1697, to castrate.)

transitive. To make lame; to cripple.

transitive. Originally: to disable, wound, cause bodily hurt or disfigurement to. Subsequently: to deprive of (the use of) a limb, etc.; to mutilate…

To remove (a part) from a body by cutting with a sharp instrument. Chiefly with adv. to cut off, out, away.

Without const.: To unfit or incapacitate, to deprive of ability or power, in some respect; to disable physically.

transitive (a) To damage, injure, maim. (b) to deface, disfigure.

transitive. To maul, maim, lacerate, cut up; to disorder; to botch, confuse.

transitive. To mangle; to cut up.

By-form of dismember, v.

transitive. To render (a person, animal, etc.) incapable of activity or limited in movement, sensation, etc., esp. by physical injury or bodily…

transitive. To hack, cut, lacerate, or †mutilate (a person or animal) by repeated blows; to reduce (a body, limb, etc.) by violence to a more or…

transitive. = maim, v.

transitive. To inflict mayhem or physical injury on (a person); to maim. Also figurative.

transitive. To deprive (a person or animal) of the use of a limb or bodily organ, by dismemberment or otherwise; to cut off or destroy (a limb or…

transitive. To inflict wounds or disfiguring blows on (a person); to mutilate; to torment. Also in extended use. Now Scottish.

transitive. To reduce to a stump; to truncate, mutilate; also, †to stunt, dwarf.

transitive. In intensive use: = maim, v. 1.

transitive. To deprive (wholly or partly) of the use of one's limbs; to lame, disable, make a cripple of.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To wound, mutilate, etc.; = martyr, v. 2b.

transitive. To dismember.

transferred and figurative. To disable as if by hamstringing; to cripple, destroy the activity or efficiency of.

To make lame, to cripple.

transitive. To pull limb from limb; to dismember. Also with up.

transitive. To shorten or diminish by cutting off a part; to cut short; to maim, mutilate. Also figurative.

transitive. To cut off the limbs of; to tear limb from limb; to dismember.