maim 使受重伤，使残疾；严重伤害，对...造成永久伤害

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maim / mem ; meɪm /
◙verb [T]
1. to wound or injure someone very seriously and often permanently
• 使受重伤，使残疾:
»Landmines still kill or maim about 300 people every month.
  地雷每个月仍然要造成 300 人左右死伤。

maim
maim / meim /
verb [VN]
   to injure sb seriously, causing permanent damage to their body
   使残废；使受重伤
SYN   incapacitate :
   Hundreds of people are killed or maimed in car accidents every week.
   每周都有数百人因车祸而丧命或致残。
⇨ note at injure

maim
I. \ˈmām\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English maynen, maymen, maynhen, mayhaymen, from Old French mahaignier, maynier, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German meidem, meiden gelding, Gothic gamaidans, accusative plural, crippled — more at mad
1. : to commit the felony of mayhem upon
2. : to wound seriously : mutilate, disable, disfigure
< he was a puritan, maimed by the narrow orthodoxy of his childhood — Douglas Stewart >
Synonyms:
maim, cripple, mutilate, batter, mangle apply, in common, to an injuring (of a body or an object) so severe as to leave permanent or lasting effects. maim implies the loss or destruction of the usefulness of a limb or member
  < an arm hanging useless, maimed in a car accident >
  cripple usually implies the loss of an arm or leg or the serious impairment of its use but can apply to any injury seriously impairing normal mobility or functioning
  < a boy crippled by the loss of a leg >
  < hands crippled by arthritis >
  < a battleship, crippled by cruisers the night before, lay smoking and floundering within sight — Ira Wolfert >
  mutilate implies the cutting, especially cutting off, or the removal of a part essential to completeness and lessening the perfection, beauty, or pleasing wholeness of the thing
  < looking exactly like a company of dolls a cruel child had mutilated, snapping a foot off here, tearing out a leg here, and battering the face of a third — Richard Jefferies >
  < never mutilate a book by tearing out pages or removing illustrations — L.R.McColvin >
  batter and mangle do not suggest loss, as of a limb, but rather an injuring which disfigures, usually excessively, batter implying a pounding or harsh beating, mangle implying a tearing, twisting, or hacking
  < a procession of battered automobiles — Oscar Handlin >
  < to bring up cannon and batter the forts into surrender — P.G.Mackesy >
  < people who have disregarded the warnings and been mangled by sharks — V.G.Heiser >
  < a smashed truck and mangled driver — G.R.Stewart >
  < his face and head were frightfully mangled with long cuts, evidently made by an axe — A.F.Harlow >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English maheym, mayme, mayne, from Middle French mahaing, mahaim, from Old French, from mahaignier, v.
1. obsolete : the loss of a limb or member of the body or of the use of it : serious physical injury
< the beggars … look upon their maims as … purses, which will always give them money — J.R.Lowell >
2. obsolete : a serious defect or mutilation : a major lack
III. \ˈmām\ adjective
archaic : maimed

【英语-西班牙语】
maim
[meɪm]
v. mutilar, amputar, baldar, lisiar, mancar, tullir