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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
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 The LaMunyons’ location was maimed in January when a Ford F150 collided into the restaurant. — Jenna Thompson april 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026 About this many children have been killed or maimed in the war, according to UNICEF. — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maimed
  1. mutilated
  2. crippled
  3. disabled
  4. incapacitated
  5. wounded
  6. injured
  7. damaged
  8. killed
Adjective
  • The mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols was found in London’s East End slums.
    — USA Today, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • According to the Times coverage of the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the scenes shown in the classroom included autopsies, decaying cadavers and live animals being butchered, mutilated and tortured.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of mutilated
Verb
  • Swaney founded WatchUr6, a cybersecurity company, in 2022 after seeing news reports about a hospital crippled by a cyberattack.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Our protagonist has been crippled with doubts about the miller’s daughter and prone to emotional highs and lows.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of crippled
Adjective
  • Programs once reserved for the truly poor and disabled have steadily broadened their qualification criteria.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2026
  • There was Christopher Alvarez, a disabled journalist, being dragged into conspiracy theories.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of disabled
Verb
  • Reeger became a hero after taking out several Klingon cruisers at the Battle of Zeta Reticuli, but he was actually incapacitated at the time and took the credit for George's heroic actions, stalling Kirk Sr's career in the process.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • This is somewhat reassuring since FEMA now appears to be incapacitated.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of incapacitated
Verb
  • In the Belgorod region, one person was killed and four others were wounded by Ukrainian strikes over the last 24 hours, according to acting governor Alexander Shuvayev.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Key officers fell mortally wounded, and the inexperienced Americans might easily have broken again.
    — Harry Ostrer, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of wounded
Verb
  • The tragedy occurred less than two hours after another deadly incident in Chatsworth, where a collision involving a Metro bus and a passenger vehicle killed two people and injured several others.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In the ensuing, comically inept exchange of shotgun fire, both friends are injured, as is bandit leader Kakucha (Vakho Chkhartisvili).
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of injured
Verb
  • After greeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US envoy was taken on a tour of a cathedral in central Kyiv damaged in Russian attacks.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The second one came out of the printer damaged, with a big scratch on it.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • Some earlier assassins expected it of themselves, canceling plots that would have killed bystanders.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In Georgia, the execution of a man who killed two real estate agents had also been scheduled for Wednesday but was halted by a judge's late-night decision a day before he was scheduled to die.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of killed

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“Maimed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maimed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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