MAIM


Meaning of MAIM in English

maim /meɪm/ BrE AmE verb [transitive]

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: maynier ]

to wound or injure someone very seriously and often permanently:

Landmines still kill or maim about 300 people every month.

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THESAURUS

■ to injure yourself or someone else

▪ hurt to damage part of your body, or someone else’s body:

She slipped on the ice and hurt herself badly.

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Be careful you don’t hurt anyone with that knife.

▪ injure to hurt yourself quite severely, or to be hurt in an accident or fighting:

One of our players has injured his leg, and will be out of the game for weeks.

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Four people have been seriously injured on the Arizona highway.

▪ wound to deliberately hurt someone using a weapon such as a knife or gun:

The gunmen shot and killed twelve people and wounded three others.

▪ maim /meɪm/ [usually passive] to hurt someone very severely, especially so that they lose an arm, leg etc, often as the result of an explosion:

In countries where there are landmines, people are killed and maimed daily.

▪ break to hurt a part of your body by breaking a bone in it:

The X-ray showed that I had broken my wrist.

▪ bruise to hurt a part of your body when you fall on it or hit it, causing a dark mark to appear on your skin:

Cathy fell off her bike and bruised her legs badly.

▪ sprain/twist to hurt your knee, wrist, shoulder etc by suddenly twisting it while you are moving:

I jumped down from the wall and landed awkwardly, spraining my ankle.

▪ strain/pull to hurt one of your muscles by stretching it or using it too much:

When you are lifting heavy loads, be careful not to strain a back muscle.

▪ dislocate to damage a joint in your body in a way that moves the two parts of the joint out of their normal position:

Our best batsman dislocated his shoulder during training.

▪ paralyse [usually passive] to make someone lose the ability to move part or all of their body:

A climbing accident had left him paralysed from the chest down.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.