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

She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by long line ropes that commercial crabbers use to haul up cages from the sea floor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

But many other protesters — understandably aroused by videos of starving, maimed, or dying Gazan children — aren’t thinking that far ahead.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

Many more are maimed by the venom’s muscle-destroying toxins, as existing treatments are largely ineffective at preventing tissue death.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 16, 2024

His every resource as a pilot now came into play as he held the stick that fought the convulsions of a maimed craft shuddering downward like a kind of ruin.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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