maim

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. t. cripple, disfigure, mutilate, lame, impair. See deterioration.

II

(Roget's IV) v.

Syn. mutilate, mangle, cripple, incapacitate, disable, disfigure, injure, hack, truncate, impair, disqualify, damage, hurt, castrate, spoil, mar, blemish, deface, warp, dismember, hamstring; see also damage 1 , hurt 1 , mangle 1 .

Syn.- maim implies a severe injury that deprives a person of some bodily member or its use [maimed in an auto accident ] ; to cripple is to cause to be legless, armless, or lame in any member [crippled by rheumatism ] ; to mutilate is to remove or severely damage a part essential to the completeness of a person or thing, and suggests disfigurement [ a speech mutilated by censors ] ; mangle implies injury or disfigurement by or as if by repeated tearing, hacking, or crushing [ his arm was mangled in the press ] ; to disable is to make incapable of normal physical activity, as by crippling [disabled war veterans ]

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.

cripple, handicap, mutilate, disable, hurt, injure, wound, incapacitate, mangle, hamstring, dismember, damage, break.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To deprive of a limb or bodily member or its use: cripple, dismember, mutilate. See HELP.