— maimedness , n. — maimer , n.
/maym/ , v.t.
1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
2. to impair; make essentially defective: The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.
n. Obs.
3. a physical injury, esp. a loss of a limb.
4. an injury or defect; blemish; lack.
[ 1250-1300; ME mayme, var. of mahayme MAYHEM ]
Syn. 1. 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. injure, disable, deface, mar.