maim :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

wound seriously, injure seriously

v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

mangle, maul

v. injure badly by beating

deform, change form, change shape

v. assume a different shape or form

heave, buckle, warp

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

cripple

v. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

gnarl

v. twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

murder, mangle, mutilate

v. press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

break, damage

v. inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

take apart, dismember

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

cut off, amputate

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

disjoin, disjoint, become disjoint

v. become separated, disconnected or disjoint

mangle, mutilate, cut up, disfigure

v. destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

cut short, truncate

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

lacerate, cut irregularly, tear irregularly

v. cut or tear irregularly

hurt, give trouble to, cause pain

v. give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back"

harass, oppress, persecute

v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

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