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maimed

[ meymd ]
/ meɪmd /
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adjective
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.
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
the simple past tense and past participle of maim.
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Origin of maimed

maim + -ed2 for the adjective senses; maim + -ed1 for the verb sense

OTHER WORDS FROM maimed

maimed·ness, nounself-maimed, adjectiveun·maimed, adjective
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