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UK
/mˈeɪmd/
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[ US /ˈmeɪmd/ ]
[ US /ˈmeɪmd/ ]
NOUN
-
people who are wounded
they had to leave the wounded where they fell
ADJECTIVE
- having a part of the body crippled or disabled
How To Use maimed In A Sentence
- During this time Kissinger needlessly prolonged U.S. war-making in which 20,853 Americans were killed and an officially U. S.-estimated 7,860,013 Indochinese were murdered, maimed or made homeless. Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History
- You may thank your lucky stars that you were just slightly hurt while the others were either killed or maimed for life in that accident.
- When one of our children, nieces or nephews or close friend is killed or maimed by a drunk driver it will be too late.
- This was a no win exercise from the get go and so many have died or have been tragically maimed for what is becoming all the more unclear to me. 08 « May « 2007 « Adventures in Juggling
- But the black smoke of the granary belching against the white hills, or the kyloe, houghed and maimed, roaring in its agony, or the fugitive brought bloody on his knees among the rocks -- God's mercy! John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- This is very proper in Glo'ster, newly maimed by the evulsion of his eyes. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
- He was maimed in an auto accident.
- Protein malnutrition is widespread, especially among children, and many of its victims die or are maimed both physically and mentally for life. Norman Borlaug - Nobel Lecture
- It is the first grand duty of an interpreter to give his author entire and unmaimed; and for the rest, the diction and versification only are his proper province, since these must be his own, but the others he is to take as he finds them. The Iliad of Homer
- To my shame a reputation bent or maimed defamed the image staid, and disrepute disgraced my case, plagued with infamy and ill repute, a name ablaze by imputation as a most unsavoury reputation won or lost or never claimed. Reputation Never Claimed