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 Words From

• maimed·ness noun
• self-maimed adjective
• un·maimed 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

Not to bring the mood down too much, but the stories are piling up of women killed or maimed because of abortion bans.

From Salon

News reports of women maimed and killed by abortion bans filled the airwaves.

From Slate

In a widely viewed clip, Sinwar is shown seated alone inside a shattered building, one arm maimed and motionless, using his good arm to hurl a stick or pole at the Israeli drone tracking him.

From Los Angeles Times

If only more people would listen right now, with Gaza lying in rubble; Israeli bombs crushing southern Lebanon; war spreading ever more widely across the region; and tens of thousands of children, women and men maimed or killed.

From Salon

It was also blamed for the exploding pager and walkie-talkie attacks that left thousands of Hezbollah members maimed, blinded or killed.

From BBC

Related Words

• mutilated
• mutilated