Found 2 hits - Term: maiming, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
maim \maim\ m=am, v. t. imp. p. p. maimed m=amd;p.
pr. vb. n. maiming. oe. maimen, of. mahaignier,
mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. it. magagnare, ll. mahemiare,
mahennare; perh. of celtic origin; cf. armor. mac'ha~na to
mutilate, m=ac'ha to crowd, press; or cf. ohg. mang=on to
lack, perh. akin to e. mangle to lacerate. cf. mayhem.
1. 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.
1913 webster
by the ancient law of england he that maimed any man
whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced
to lose the like part. --blackstone.
1913 webster
2. to mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
1913 webster
my late maimed limbs lack wonted might. --spenser.
1913 webster
you maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. --shak.
1913 webster
syn: to mutilate; mangle; cripple.
1913 webster
see also:
maimed maiming mayhem
- [2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
37 moby thesaurus words for "maiming":
bankruptcy, breakage, breakdown, castration, collapse, crack-up,
crippling, damage, demasculinization, destruction, detriment,
dilapidation, disablement, disrepair, effeminization, emasculation,
encroachment, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment,
incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, loss, mayhem,
mischief, mutilation, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe,
sickening, spoiling, weakening
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