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maimed::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mutilated |
Examples of maimed
maimed
When the firing stopped, hundreds if not thousands of people lay maimed or dead.
From the cnn.com
He denies that marriage to an ambitious star maimed his own career as a singer.
From the time.com
His maimed eye was bandaged heavily and he was off training the next few days.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled.
From the time.com
A shark attack in Sydney Harbour left him severely maimed and fighting to survive.
From the smh.com.au
My son and his friends could die or become maimed as a result of this escape.
From the latimes.com
The one emotion everyone showed was happiness to see me alive, maimed or not.
From the time.com
For the moment, the two teams seem determined to get more valuable property maimed.
From the washingtonpost.com
It was the first time I ever felt healed by a medical encounter, instead of maimed.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
- Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
- (maimed) having a part of the body crippled or disabled
- (maimed) wounded: people who are wounded; "they had to leave the wounded where they fell"
- Mutilation or maiming is an act or physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body, usually without causing death.
- To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body
- (Maiming) or mutilation which involves the loss of, or incapacity to use, a bodily member, is and has been practised by many societies with various cultural and religious significances, and is also a customary form of physical punishment, especially applied on the principle of an eye for an eye.
- (Maiming) A situational occurrence when any person involved in the disturbance will be permanently physically damaged or deformed as a result of an action by another. (414)
- To cripple or mutilate in any way; to injure a person in a way that deprives him or her of the use of any limb or other part of his or her body; to seriously wound, disfigure, or disable. (See also mayhem.)
- To injure someone very badly by violence.
