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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024maim /meɪm/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object* usually: be + ~-ed],- to injure (someone) so that part of the body can no longer be used:was badly maimed in the fire.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024maim (mām),USA pronunciation v.t. - Pathologyto deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like;
cripple:The explosion maimed him for life. - to impair;
make essentially defective:The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.
n. Obs. - a physical injury, esp. a loss of a limb.
- an injury or defect;
blemish;
lack.
- Middle English mayme, variant of mahayme mayhem 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Maim, lacerate, mangle, mutilate indicate the infliction of painful and severe injuries on the body. To maim is to injure by giving a disabling wound, or by depriving a person of one or more members or their use:maimed in an accident.To lacerate is to inflict severe cuts and tears on the flesh or skin:to lacerate an arm.To mangle is to chop undiscriminatingly or to crush or rend by blows or pressure, as if by machinery:bodies mangled in a train wreck.To mutilate is to injure the completeness or beauty of a body, esp. by cutting off an important member:to mutilate a statue, a tree, a person.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged injure, disable, deface, mar.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: maim /meɪm/ vb (transitive)- to mutilate, cripple, or disable a part of the body of (a person or animal)
- to make defective
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French mahaignier to wound, probably of Germanic origin |