Associations to the word «Maim»

Wiktionary

MAIM, verb. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

Dictionary definition

MAIM, verb. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne