maimed
Americanadjective
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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.
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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
Other Word Forms
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
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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
Animal welfare campaigners said the proposed legislation would stop greyhounds being maimed and killed, but critics called it a needless bill that would not improve animal welfare.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
In “The Air as Air,” Sidney, a vet maimed in Iraq, belongs to a recovery movement focused on breath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
I was in my own room as usual—just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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