Crossword clues for maim
maim
- Severely harm
- Seriously impair
- Injure gravely
- Hurt and disable
- Hobble severely
- Badly wound
- Really hurt
- Kneecap, e.g
- Do some serious damage to
- Do serious damage to
- Cause bodily injury
- Wound severely
- More than hurt
- Make lame, perhaps
- Hurt seriously
- Hurt bad
- Grievously injure, in a way
- Do some serious damage
- Wound woefully
- Wound and permanently disfigure
- Seriously mess up
- Seriously harm
- Really injure
- More than just injure
- More than _urt
- Leave with a limp
- Lacerate, e.g
- Injure (a person), causing permanent disability
- Harm severely
- Grievously wound
- Do mayhem to
- Cause major harm to
- Break limbs off of, say
- Incapacitate
- Impair
- Wound seriously
- Disable
- Seriously wound
- Injure severely
- Kneecap, e.g.
- Hurt badly
- Critically injure
- Cripple and then some
- Mangle
- Seriously injure
- Wing, say
- Wing, in a way
- Disfigure
- Hurt severely
- Injure seriously
- Wing, e.g.
- Seriously hurt
- More than mar
- Injure badly
- Unhand or disarm?
- Mutilate
- Deform in battle
- Make defective
- Wound, injure, harm
- Wound, injure
- Injure, causing permanent disability
- Injure seriously, leaving permanent damage
- Cause serious injury to
- Badly injure
- Wing, e.g
- Severely injure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maim \Maim\, n. [Written in law language maihem, and mayhem.] [OF. mehaing. See Maim, v.]
The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
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The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.
--Hooker.A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.
--Hayward.
Maim \Maim\ (m[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maimed (m[=a]md);p. pr. & vb. n. Maiming.] [OE. maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It. magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. mac'ha[~n]a to mutilate, m[=a]c'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mang[=o]n to lack, perh. akin to E. mangle to lacerate. Cf. Mayhem.]
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To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part.
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To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
My late maimed limbs lack wonted might.
--Spenser.You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.
--Shak.Syn: To mutilate; mangle; cripple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, maimen, from Old French mahaignier "injure, wound, muitilate, cripple, disarm," possibly from Vulgar Latin *mahanare (source also of Provençal mayanhar, Italian magagnare), of unknown origin; or possibly from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *mait- (source of Old Norse meiða "to hurt," related to mad (adj.)), or from PIE root *mai- "to cut." Related: Maimed; maiming.
Wiktionary
vb. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
WordNet
v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
Usage examples of "maim".
Philadelphia customers is armed with a brickbat and is just moving forward to maim Haystack Duggeler with this instrument, when who steps into the situation but Baseball Hattie, who is also on her way to the station to catch a train, and who is greatly horrified by the assault on the Giants.
Children could be quite cruel, especially to someone who was different, and Citrine with her maimed left hand and her exiled mother was different indeed.
She had heard the tale from Stave: the defeat and maiming of Korik, Sill, and Doar had led the Bloodguard to turn their backs on their Vow.
It fell on them, killing Paulsen, killing or maiming all the dogs, and leaving Falconet himself unconscious under a corner of the avalanche.
Even if the poor wretches survived the tribulation, they could die if the wound festered, or be left maimed for life.
The father of the boy, who was poor and had a large family, seeing himself near death, had thought of having his unfortunate son maimed so that he should become the support of his brothers with his voice.
To eulogize Phil properly, recall from the post-apocalyptic junkyard a menagerie of maimed automata -- ersatz sheep, a robot German shepherd, a haggish simulacrum of Secretariat -- and a crew of pertinacious little people, from Lumky to Isidore to Tagomi, then set them singing until they entropically abort.
If so you should know that it now has no maim and very few old inmates remaining.
These barbarians not only looted and raped, they laughingly prefaced murder with maiming and unholy mutilations, they raped women to death, then continued to defile the corpses for hours.
Mothers do not want to know that the child they carry will be born dead, or that their sons will die before they do, and their husbands will be maimed during the hunt.
Iron had long since taken over as the metal of choice for forging weapons, and the number of Maimed Men had been declining for decades.
Said he was riding one of those shaggy little ponies the Maimed Men are known for.
The Maimed Man had stripped off his makepiece armor and now walked in felted tunic and kilt.
There was a lot of meat, even considering he and the Maimed Man had roasted whatever they fancied and been none too careful with what was left.
More Maimed Men had come to the fire, and a group of women had gathered near the rear.