meaning of maim
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
3. 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.
4. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
Related Words
maim | maimed | maimedly | maimedness | maiming |
