• IPA: /meɪm/

maim (maims, present participle maiming; past and past participle maimed)

1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) 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.

• mutilate

• French: mutiler, estropier
• German: verstümmeln, verschandeln
• Italian: menomare, mutilare
• Portuguese: mutilar
• Russian: уве́чить
• Spanish: mutilar