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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
- Almost all the girls who still run away to Agnes are reunited with their families -- once they agree to leave them unmaimed. Johann Hari: Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women
- Had the AWOL Bush and the 5 time draft dodger Cheney not acted from the "gut" but been more deliberative, 4500 young Americans may still be alive, not to mention all the ones maimed. Axelrod slams Romney
- And Anne, you seem to think Arabs 'abridge' the human rights of Jews, a month after Israel killed 1300 Palestinians, maimed thousands more, refuses to lift the blockade etc etc etc. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.
- Tom was seriously maimed in the war.
- Palomides, I promise you that I shall be with you by that day if I be unslain or unmaimed. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- Tom was seriously maimed in the war.
- My uncle was maimed, as I have said; Pippi, like all impostors, was a coward; it was my unrivalled skill with the sword, and readiness to use it, that maintained the reputation of the firm, so to speak, and silenced many a timid gambler who might have hesitated to pay his losings. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
- In recent years, it has seen an influx of war-displaced Cambodians, including maimed land-mine victims and orphans whose parents died in the civil war.
- But virtually all begging street urchins, maimed men, mothers suckling infants and other ragged destitutes are Tibetan, not Chinese.