All maim synonyms
maim
M m verb maim
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- dismember β to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disfigure β to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- incapacitate β to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
- wound β the act of winding.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- disable β make not work
- hack β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- mangle β to smooth or press with a mangle.
- maul β a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- castrate β To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- truncate β to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
- lame β an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
- massacre β the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- warp β OS/2
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- blemish β A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- batter β If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- hog-tie β If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
- disqualify β to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- hamstring β (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- gimp β a limp.
- cripple β A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- mayhem β Law. the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
noun maim
- clean out β If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- dilapidate β to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- use up β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wrecker β a person or thing that wrecks.
- ruination β the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.