injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
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
To maim someone means to injure them so badly that part of their body is permanently damaged. Mines have been scattered in rice paddies and jungles, maiming and killing civilians. to wound or injure someone very seriously and often permanently (maynier)
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
To cripple or mutilate in any way; to injure a person in a way that deprives him or her of the use of any limb or other part of his or her body; to seriously wound, disfigure, or disable (See also mayhem )
vt deprive of the use of some necessary part of the body; cripple; mutinlate; disable
To cripple or mutilate in any way, to inflict upon a person any injury which deprives him of the use of any limb or member of his body; to seriously wound, disfigure, or disable (see Mayhem)
The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential