Maim

Definition: Maim

Maim

Verb

1. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.

Date "maim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.
Impotence	Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Maim

English words defined with "maim": Maihem, Maiming. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Memo to me, memo to me: maim you after my meeting. (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson) Hurt, rather than maim. Maim, rather than kill. (Kung Fu; writing credit: Howard Friedlander; Bruce Lee)
Lyrics	Naw, I'm a changed man, look at the range maim ("Hey Ma"; performing artist: Cam'ron) If you're not for me then why does this distance maim my life? ("If You're Not The One"; performing artist: DANIEL BEDINGFIELD)
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Domain	Title
Books	Apana adarsa maim hum (reference) Hara gulaba aura maim (reference) Kasom kahom maim daradiya (reference) Law for the Layman Products That Kill and Maim (reference) Maim Aparadhi Hum (Samskarana) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Wrestling Gold Collection, Vol. 2: The Maim Event (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Maim That Tune (reference) Maim That Tune [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but, it is plain, this was only to drudgery, not to slavery: for, it is evident, the person sold was not under an absolute, arbitrary, despotical power: for the master could not have power to kill him, at any time, whom, at a certain time, he was obliged to let go free out of his service; and the master of such a servant was so far from having an arbitrary power over his life, that he could not, at pleasure, so much as maim him, but the loss of an eye, or tooth, set him free, Exod. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	I am directing the FBI and other investigative agencies to target gangs that involve juveniles in violent crime and to seek authority to prosecute as adults teenagers who maim and kill like adults.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Maim" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.70% of the time. "Maim" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	69.7%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	18.18%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	9.09%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	3.03%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	33	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "maim": Abel-maim, Misrephoth-maim.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "maim"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sakatoj (beat up, cripple, lame, mangle, maul, mutilate), sakatim (disablement, mayhem, mutilation), gjymtoj (cripple, disable, dismember, hackle, haggle, lame, limb, mutilate), gjymtim (deformity, disablement, dismemberment, maiming, Mar, mutilation), dëmtim i rëndë trupi. (various references)

Arabic		‏قعد (paralyse, paralyze, sit, sit down), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, mangle, mutilate, mutilation, resect, resection, stump, take off, truncate). (various references)

Bulgarian		осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, emasculate, hamstring, hock, hough, lame, mangle, mutilate, nip), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate). (various references)

Czech		zmrzaèit (cripple, mutilate). (various references)

Farsi		معیوب شدن , چلاق کردن , نقص عضو, کسیرامعیوب کردن , ضرب وجرح (Battery), صدمه (Concussion, Disservice, Harm, Hurt, Indemnity, Injury, Scathe, Shock), جرج , اختلال یاازکارافتادگی عضوی . (various references)

Finnish		typistää (abridge, crop, cut short, dock, mutilate), tehdä rammaksi, silpoa (dismember, mutilate), ruhjoa (bruise, crush). (various references)

French		mutiler (mangle, maul), estropier (mangle), blesser. (various references)

German		verstümmeln (distort, garble, mangle, mutilate, to garble, to mutilate). (various references)

Greek		κολοβώνω (cripple, mutilate), ακρωτηριάζω (amputate, mutilate). (various references)

Hebrew		מום (blemish, defect, deformity, disability, fault, impediment, mutilation), ל�'רום ל� כות (disable). (various references)

Hungarian		megnyomorít (to cripple, to lame, to maim), meghamisít (doctor, fudge, tamper, to adulterate, to fake, to load, to maim, to rig, to salt). (various references)

Indonesian		memuntungkan, membuntungkan (imputate, lop off). (various references)

Italian		mutilare (cripple, deface, mutilate), menomare (abate, belittle, cheapen, damage, decrease, diminish, disable, drop, dwindle, impair, minimize, relax, slaken, understimate, weaken), storpiare (cripple, mangle). (various references)

Manx		martarey (cripple, disable, lame), gortaghey (acidulate, hurt, hurting, pain). (various references)

Pig Latin		aimmay.(various references)

Portuguese		mutilar (cripple, disable, garden, hack, hackle, mangle, mutilate, truncate), correio (body packer, body stuffer, courier, mail, mail-carrier, mail-courier, mule, post, post office, postmark, runner, swallower), aleijar (lame, mutilate). (various references)

Romanian		mutila (cripple, emasculate, mangle, mutilate), schilodi (cripple, disable, lame, mangle, maul, mutilate). (various references)

Russian		увечить (mutilate), калечить (cripple, hamstring, maul, mutilate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sakatost (lameness), sakatiti (cripple, mutilate), sakaćenje (crippling, mutilation), osakatiti (lame, mutilate, stultify). (various references)

Spanish		mutilar (cripple, deface, disable, emasculate, garble, mangle, mutilate), tullir (cripple), lisiar (cripple, injure, lame), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, soil, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck). (various references)

Swedish		stympa (clip, curtail, garble, hack, mutilate, truncate), lemlästa (cripple, mutilate, mutilitate). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้บา�"เจ็บสาหัส. (various references)

Turkish		sakatlamak (cripple, disable, flaw, hamstring, injure, lame, Mar, mutilate, nobble). (various references)

Ukranian		калічити (beat up, cripple, hamstring, lame, mutilate), каліцтво (mutilation, punishment), нівечити (canker, deface, defeature, deform, disfigure, lame, vandalize). (various references)

Vietnamese		thương tật. (various references)

Welsh		anafu (be hurt, blemish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	trunco. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "maim": maimed, maimer, maimers, maiming, maims. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Maim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amain, amam, amim, Ammi, caim, emain, faim, Kaim, maam, maan, mabin, Macimo, Madm, maic, Maif, maima, maime, maimi, maint, maip, mair, mait, maix, maiz, maji, makim, Malim, mam, mamie, mamm, maoi, Maowm, mapi, mapm, marm, masin, maum, maun, mavi, mawi, mayem, Mayumba, meem, meim, meime, mein, meism, mfi, mia, miai, miak, miama, miame, mian, Miao, miau, miaz, mii, miii, mim, mima, mimi, mimz, Mji, Mobium, momi, Momim, Msai, mumi, Mwalimu, myain, Mzi, naam, Naeem, naij, naim, Na'im, Najm, naom, Naum, Niam, Qaim, sa'im, smain, vaim, Xmai. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "maim" (pronounced mā"m)
2	-ā" m	acclaim, aflame, aim, ballgame, became, blame, came, claim, Dame, declaim, defame, disclaim, exclaim, fame, flame, frame, game, inflame, lame, name, overcame, postgame, proclaim, reclaim, rename, same, shame, tame.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: imam.
	Words within the letters "a-i-m-m"
	-1 letter: aim, ami, mim.
	-2 letters: ai, am, ma, mi, mm.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-m-m"
	+1 letter: imams, imaum, maims, mamie, maxim, miasm.
	+2 letters: ammine, ammino, gimmal, imaums, imbalm, immane, maihem, maimed, maimer, mamies, mammie, maxima, maxims, miasma, miasms, mimbar, mimosa, minima, misaim, tammie.
	+3 letters: ammines, ammonia, ammonic, animism, atomism, bamming, cadmium, cambism, cambium, damming, digamma, dilemma, gammier, gamming, gimmals, hammier, hammily, hamming, imagism, imamate, imbalms, immoral, jammier, jammies, jamming, jimjams, lamming, maihems, mailman, mailmen, maimers, maiming, malmier, mammati, mammies, manumit, marimba, marmite, maximal, maximin, maximum, melisma, mermaid, miasmal, miasmas, miasmic, milkman, milldam, mimbars, mimical, mimosas, minicam, minimal, minimax, misaims, mismade, mismake, mismark, mismate, misname, mohalim, rammier, ramming, rammish, semimat, tammies.
	+4 letters: aglimmer, alarmism, aluminum, ammoniac, ammonias, ammonify, ammonite, ammonium, ammonoid, animisms, atomisms, cadmiums, cambisms, cambiums, camomile, chammied, chammies, cimbalom, clammier, clammily, clamming, cramming, cymatium, digammas, dilemmas, dimmable, dramming, dynamism, familism, flamming, flimflam, gammadia, gammiest, hammiest, humanism, imagisms, imamates, imbalmed, imbalmer, immanent, immature, immolate, immortal, jammiest, machismo, magmatic, mahimahi, mahzorim, mailbomb, mainmast, makimono, malemiut, malmiest, mamaliga, mamboing, mammilla, mammitis, manumits, marasmic, marimbas, maritime, marmites, masurium, maximals, maximins, maximise, maximite, maximize, maximums, mealtime, meantime, melamdim, melamine, melanism, melismas, memorial, memsahib, mermaids, miasmata, milkmaid, milldams, minicamp, minicams, minimals, minyanim, misaimed, misclaim, misframe, mishmash, mismakes, mismarks, mismatch, mismated, mismates, misnamed, misnames, misogamy, monadism, monomial, moralism, mortmain, moshavim, nomadism, pemmican, psammite, racemism, ramiform, rammiest, samarium, scamming, semicoma, semimatt, shammied, shammies, shamming, shamosim, slamming, smarmier, smarmily, spamming, summital, tagmemic, timpanum, tramming, whammies, whamming.
	+5 letters: academism, alarmisms, aluminium, aluminums, americium, ammoniacs, ammoniate, ammonites, ammonitic, ammoniums, ammonoids, amoralism, animalism, camomiles, chammying, chamomile, cimbaloms, clammiest, commissar, committal, dogmatism, dreamtime, dynamisms, embalming, familisms, filmmaker, firmament, flimflams, formalism, formamide, gammadion, gammoning, gemmating, gemmation, germanium, gymnasium, hammering, hamminess, harmonium, humanisms, imbalmers, imbalming, immanence, immanency, immatures, immediacy, immediate, immigrant, immigrate, immolated, immolates, immolator, immorally, immortals, immovable, immovably, immutable, immutably, macadamia, machismos, machzorim, magnesium, magnetism, mahimahis, mailbombs, mainframe, mainmasts, makimonos, malemiuts, mamaligas, mammalian, mammering, mammillae, mammonism, mammonist, mannerism, manubrium, mapmaking, marimbist, marsupium, masochism, masuriums, matrimony, maximally, maximised, maximises, maximites, maximized, maximizer, maximizes, mazaedium, mealtimes, meantimes, mechanism, melamines, melanisms, melismata, memorials, memsahibs, mentalism, metameric, miasmatic, microbeam, microgram, middleman, midrashim, midstream, milkmaids, milligram, mincemeat, minicamps, minimally, minimaxes, minuteman, misaiming, misbecame, misclaims, misframed, misframes, mismaking, mismanage, mismarked, mismating, misnaming, monachism, monadisms, monatomic, monoamine, monogamic, monomania, monomials, moralisms, mortmains, mosaicism, mridangam, mullahism, multiatom, mutualism, nomadisms, ommatidia, oriflamme, pantomime, pemmicans, psammites, racemisms, rummaging, samariums, scramming, scrimmage, semicomas, semimatte, semimetal, seminomad, shamanism, shammasim, shammosim, shammying, smarmiest, stemmatic, summaries, summarily, summarise, summarize, summating, summation, summative, swimmable, talmudism, timberman, timpanums, ultimatum, unjamming, vampirism, yammering.
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