Synonyms for maim

verb

maim implies a severe injury that deprives a person of some bodily member or its use maimed in an auto accident; to cripple is to cause to be legless, armless, or lame in any member crippled by rheumatism; to mutilate is to remove or severely damage a part essential to the completeness of a person or thing, and suggests disfigurement a speech mutilated by censors; mangle implies injury or disfigurement by or as if by repeated tearing, hacking, or crushing his arm was mangled in the press; to disable is to make incapable of normal physical activity, as by crippling disabled war veterans