The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
To cripple or mutilate in any way; to inflict upon a person any injury that deprives him or her of the use of any limb or member of his or her body; to seriously wound, disfigure, or disable. (See also mayhem.)
vt. deprive of the use of some necessary part of the body; cripple; mutinlate; disable.
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
Wound or injure so that part of the body is permanently damaged.