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

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

Children, medical workers and innocent bystanders were killed and maimed.

From Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the group suffered a double wave of attacks that that saw thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies explode, leaving 39 dead and thousands of Hezbollah fighters, officials and administrators maimed and incapacitated.

From Los Angeles Times

“What we used to do was wait for people to be killed and maimed,” explains Duncan Spencer from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

From BBC

Related Words

• mutilated
• mutilated