Dictionary Entry
maim
maim is a 4-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
- 3verb
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.
- 4verb
The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
- 5verb
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
"people were maimed by the explosion"
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