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

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

Barrel after barrel was being rolled across the deck to be maimed and tossed into the sea.

From Literature

It’s a near-replica of a work shown at the Pompidou with the same solemn title, created to recognize those “physically maimed or mentally harmed” by doctrine and intolerance.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Maj Lipsky acknowledges the civilian suffering in Gaza and does not deny the imagery of dead and maimed women and children.

From BBC

Related Words

• mutilated