maimed

[meymd]

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of maimed¹

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

Example Sentences

According to Human Rights Watch, Russian forces have deliberately targeted civilians in the city with FPV drones and killed or maimed them - a war crime.

From BBC

In another instance, a bear maimed the hand of a man living in the Chantry Flat area of the Angeles National Forest.

From Los Angeles Times

In “The Air as Air,” Sidney, a vet maimed in Iraq, belongs to a recovery movement focused on breath.

From Los Angeles Times

“These are lethal devices. Had any of these been thrown in a person’s direction, they could have killed or maimed that person,” Hochman said.

From Los Angeles Times

My unfortunate niche is innocent Americans who were mistreated, maimed, or killed in the name of elastic, expansive, nebulous, and incendiary words like “terrorists,” “insider threats,” “enemies within,” “illegals,” and “traitors.”

From Salon

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