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maimed

[ meymd ]

adjective

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of maim.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾²¹¾±³¾±ð»å·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
  • self-maimed adjective
  • ³Ü²Ô·³¾²¹¾±³¾±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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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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A dramatic Israeli intelligence operation in mid-September involved exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, resulting in the death of more than a dozen Hezbollah foot soldiers, with thousands of other people in Lebanon injured or maimed.

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