maim

To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. synonym: mangle.

To make imperfect or defective; impair.

To disable by wounding or mutilation; deprive of, or of the use of, a necessary constituent part, as of the body, or, figuratively, of anything; in old law, to deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person less able to defend himself in fighting, or to annoy his adversary; mutilate. See mayhem.

Synonyms Mangle, etc. See mutilate.

A disabling wound or mutilation: the deprivation of a necessary part, or of the use of it, as a limb; a crippling, or that which cripples; in old law, deprivation by injury or removal of the use of some member serviceable in fight or for self-protection.