maimed 1 of 2

adjective

as in mutilated

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verb

past tense of maim
as in crippled
to cause severe or permanent injury to on-the-job accidents maim far too many workers every year

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Recent Examples of maimed
Adjective
Meanwhile, Lord Corlys Velaryon and his fleet have the city blockaded, while Team Black commands from Dragonstone and Daemon battles in the Riverlands and Aemond broods on the throne, which he’s taken from his maimed brother. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026 That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Roché said six people, including minors, had been maimed in three weeks of protests, losing hands or eyes. — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026 Through its stance, the NHL bears a share of responsibility for the people killed and maimed in Russia’s war in Ukraine. — Dominik Hasek, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026 Men routinely fall off buildings, get electrocuted, crushed or maimed. — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 During one part of his history, Angel was maimed and his wings were replaced by metal projectile-shooting wings by the villain Apocalpyse. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026 Those who survived were often maimed for life, in body and in spirit. — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026 These armed hostilities have maimed, mutilated and killed millions of human beings — many of them innocent civilians. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026 They were wounded and maimed by the tens of thousands. — CBS News, 10 May 2026 As a result, more than 1,130 people died and thousands more were maimed or injured. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maimed
  1. mutilated
  2. crippled
  3. disabled
  4. incapacitated
  5. wounded
  6. injured
  7. damaged
  8. killed
Adjective
  • Pull some treats from the open coffin at Scotto Funeral Home, on the corner of Court Street and 2nd Place, then head to President near Hoyt to gawk at bloodstained windows and mutilated dolls.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Ken Russell’s The Devils originally came out in 1971 in a mutilated version, and nobody quite knew what to do with it at the time.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of mutilated
Verb
  • He is crippled by doubt, convinced that others are gaining on him.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents and purposes had ceased to function.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of crippled
Adjective
  • The vehicle caught on fire in front of a local orphanage for disabled children.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Singletary has used her own life experiences including raising her kids, helping take care of her disabled brother and planning her estate to help her readers navigate their financial journeys.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of disabled
Verb
  • Now, a poisonous residue on the same crowbar has left him incapacitated.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
  • According to the suit, Jane Doe was beset by seven men while she was incapacitated by drugs and alcohol.
    — Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of incapacitated
Verb
  • Three were killed and six were wounded in the Obukhiv district, where warehouses were damaged, police said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The elder Sebastian Trotter was in the water below him, grabbing a tree trunk, wounded and barely able to speak.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of wounded
Verb
  • On Tuesday morning, three people were killed and four injured when two vehicles caught fire in a Russian attack on the Kyiv-Odesa highway, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The pledge follows land mine blasts that injured three South Korean soldiers; Seoul says North Korea planted the mines, while Pyongyang denies responsibility and threatens retaliation.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of injured
Verb
  • The attack also damaged a nearby care home, with emergency crews evacuating 15 elderly residents, the service said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Research partners recorded the various sounds that drones make when their propellers get chipped or cracked or their motor becomes damaged or begins to fail.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of killed

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