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.

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times

Maj Lipsky acknowledges the civilian suffering in Gaza and does not deny the imagery of dead and maimed women and children.

From BBC

“What we used to do was wait for people to be killed and maimed,” explains Duncan Spencer from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

From BBC

Those who had lost loved ones in the war, or had been crippled or maimed, could not so easily put sorrowful memories aside.

From Literature

As Angela meets with the maimed workers, they often tailor their testimonials to what they think will be most appealing to the corporation, their actual circumstance reduced to a pity-inducing performance.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• mutilated