maimed

[ meymd ]
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adjective
  1. partly or wholly deprived of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like:As a patient in a Dublin hospital in 1917, he shared rooms with many of the maimed victims of World War I.

  2. impaired or defective in some essential way: Coverage of the fisheries question took a full spread in the newspaper, so what you read in that brief post is a maimed account.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of maim.

Origin of maimed

1
First recorded in 1300–50; maim + -ed2 for the adjective senses; maim + -ed1 for the verb sense

Other words from maimed

  • maimed·ness, noun
  • self-maimed, adjective
  • un·maimed, adjective

Words Nearby maimed

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How to use maimed in a sentence

  • He commanded a regiment in the war of 1812, and was maimed for life in the battle of Chrystler's fields.

  • He who has maimed another not only undergoes in return the loss of the same limb, but his hand also is cut off.

  • His answer was to rise suddenly to his knees, to stoop again, and to kiss the foot he had innocently maimed.

    Mushroom Town | Oliver Onions
  • A perfect army of halt and maimed and lame and blind crouch by the sides of the lane and live on the charity of the passers-by.

  • The rest of the prisoners were either dead or too badly maimed to fight.

    The Status Civilization | Robert Sheckley