verb
definition
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
example
He was maimed by a bear.
noun
definition
The act by which somebody is maimed.
Examples of maiming in a Sentence
For many kids, this is in addition to video game play, which can involve violent scenes including shooting, maiming or virtually killing characters.
Instead, AB1179 calls for limited sales on any "video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being."
He paid their bloodfines and received compensation for their slaughter, maiming or plunder.
Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.