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/meɪm/ · verb
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body..
He was maimed by a bear.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee
Use maim when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Maim means To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body..
Common synonyms include mutilate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was maimed by a bear.
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