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

The police force was cast into turmoil after the 2024 overthrow of the autocratic government of now-convicted fugitive Sheikh Hasina, which left at least 1,400 dead and thousands maimed -- many by police gunfire.

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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.

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

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

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“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.

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