Definitions for maim

maim maim

Spelling: [meym]
IPA: /meɪm/

Maim is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in maim (aimm).

Definitions for maim

noun

  1. a physical injury, especially a loss of a limb.
  2. an injury or defect; blemish; lack.

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple:
  2. to impair; make essentially defective:

Origin of maim

1250-1300; Middle English mayme, variant of mahayme mayhem

Examples for maim

The indictment charged him with assault with intent to maim.

But what chances should I have given them to kill or maim us: Fifty-fifty?

In the ring he struck to hurt, struck to maim, struck to destroy; but there was no animus in it.

A drunken vagabond cannot maim his wife but all England must know all about it.

Indeed, I would decline to do so even to save my own, but I should have no objection to maim.

The fall would not kill him—it would only bruise and maim him.

When Iron Dome misses -- and it does sometimes miss -- the Gaza rockets kill and maim only within a very limited radius.

Do you wish to kill or 39 maim us both before it is necessary?

When the savage desires to rob you, he may attempt to strangle and maim you.

Why, they will have had time to maim the man for life in those four days!

Word Value for maim
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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