• Maim

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪm

    Origin

    Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner; see mayhem.

    Full definition of maim

    Verb

    1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
      • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody Chapter 1, Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) 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.

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