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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
maim
    v 1: injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
         or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Maim \Maim\, n. [Written in law language maihem, and
   mayhem.] [OF. mehaing. See Maim, v.]
   1. 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.
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   2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling;
      mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential.
      See Mayhem.
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            Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want
            there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.
                                                  --Hooker.
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            A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history
            that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.
                                                  --Hayward.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Maim \Maim\ (m[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maimed (m[=a]md);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[~n]a to
   mutilate, m[=a]c'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mang[=o]n 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.
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            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.
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   2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
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            My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. --Spenser.
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            You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. --Shak.
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   Syn: To mutilate; mangle; cripple.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
MAIM, pleadings. This is a technical word necessary to be introduced into 
all indictments for mayhem; the words "feloniously did maim," must of 
necessity be inserted, because no other word, or any circumlocution, will 
answer the same purpose. 4 Inst. 118; Hawk. B. 2, c. 23, s. 17, 18, 77; 
Hawk. B. 2, c. 25, s, 55; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *244. 



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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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