maim
/meɪm/ v [I/T]Definition
› to injure a person so severely that a part of that person's body will no longer work correctly or is completely lacking: [T] Many civilians have been maimed by land mines.
(Definition of maim v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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