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maimed

[ meymd ]

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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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Other Word Forms

��·�Ա�� noun
self-maimed adjective
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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

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My unfortunate niche is innocent Americans who were mistreated, maimed, or killed in the name of elastic, expansive, nebulous, and incendiary words like “terrorists,” “insider threats,” “enemies within,” “illegals,” and “traitors.”

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He shared with me another picture, of his maimed hand, only now it also bore a tattooed message which expressed that his wounds were a cheap sacrifice in honour of Nasrallah, the late Hezbollah leader.

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Unicef said "relentless and indiscriminate bombardments" had resumed in Gaza, with 100 children killed or maimed every day in the 10 days to 31 March.

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Many of the volunteers who took up arms three years ago have either been killed, maimed, or are too exhausted to fight any more.

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Despite exceptional coverage at times, what was most profoundly important about war in Gaza — what it was like to be terrorized, massacred, maimed and traumatized — remained almost entirely out of view.

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