maimed

American  

[meymd] / meɪmd /

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.

Other Word Forms

• maimedness
  noun
• self-maimed
  adjective
• unmaimed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of maimed

First recorded in 1300–50; maim + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; maim + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

And the New York Times recently ran an exposé, “Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys,” on the alarming rate of equine injuries at tracks around the United States.

From Slate • May 4, 2012

Maimed soldiers are routinely flown from Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where they are stabilized before heading to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maimed Civil War veterans beg on the streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maimed, beggared, grey; seeking an alms; with nod Of palsy doing task of thanks for bread; Upon the stature of a God, He whom the Gods have struck bends low his head.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

Maimed by mishap, you can no longer earn your living as before.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio

Related Words

• mutilated