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 Words From

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

Bodies come back in flag-shrouded coffins, and the living and maimed are hailed as heroes with purpose.

From The Daily Beast

She had a way of convincing sick and maimed people that she was their equal.

From The Daily Beast

One year after the Boston bombing, a maimed survivor faces the choice of amputation.

From The Daily Beast

That attitude extends to fans,  a few of whom are killed or maimed each year by flying car parts after a collision.

From The Daily Beast

Had the bomb exploded, scores of New Yorkers likely would have been killed and even more wounded or maimed.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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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.

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

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Related Words

• mutilated
• mutilated