English Dictionary

maim

/meɪm/

verb

To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

He tried to maim his opponent during the fight.

意味（1）

To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

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.