maim

English

Etymology

From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm

Verb

maim (third-person singular simple present maims, present participle maiming, simple past and past participle maimed)

1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
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     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

Synonyms

• mutilate

Derived terms

• maimer

Translations

to cause permanent loss of a part of the body

• Arabic: شَوِهَ (šawiha), بَتَرَ (ar) (batara)
• Armenian: հաշմանդամ դարձնել (hašmandam darjnel), հաշմել (hy) (hašmel), խեղել (hy) (xeġel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘害／残害 (zh) (cánhài), 残害 (zh) (cánhài), 致殘／致残 (zh) (zhìcán), 致残 (zh) (zhìcán)

• Czech: zmrzačit pf, zohavit pf
• Danish: lemlæste
• Dutch: verminken (nl)
• Finnish: vammauttaa (fi), silpoa, runnella (fi)
• French: mutiler (fr), estropier (fr)
• Galician: mutilar (gl), fanar, toller (gl), eivar
• German: verstümmeln (de), verschandeln (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πηρόω (pēróō)

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• Hungarian: csonkít (hu)
• Icelandic: limlesta (is)
• Italian: menomare, mutilare (it)
• Japanese: 不具にする (ふぐにする, fugu-ni suru)
• Latin: dēbilitō, mutilō, truncō
• Macedonian: осакатува (osakatuva)
• Maori: whakatūroro, whakahauā
• Norwegian: lemleste
• Portuguese: mutilar (pt)
• Romanian: mutila (ro)
• Russian: уве́чить (ru) impf (uvéčitʹ), кале́чить (ru) impf (kaléčitʹ), уро́довать (ru) impf (uródovatʹ)
• Spanish: mutilar (es)
• Swedish: lemlästa (sv), stympa (sv)

Anagrams

• I'mma, Imma, Mami, imam, imma, mami

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Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor and Old Irish midithir), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian A mem.

Noun

maim ?

1. thought, thinking

   enenkaś paspārtau cwi maim palskw attsaik

   completely turned inward [is] his thought and spirit