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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
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 Miraculously, although some of his passengers may have sustained mild injuries, not a single one was maimed or killed. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 Israel is in shambles with probably large casualties, dead and maimed. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maimed
  1. mutilated
  2. crippled
  3. disabled
  4. incapacitated
  5. wounded
  6. injured
  7. damaged
  8. killed
Adjective
  • 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
  • But the most difficult parts also offer ways forward — news that arrives via a skull, a mutilated body, evidence of closure in many respects of the word.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of mutilated
Verb
  • Russia has been doing this since the start of the war, terrorizing Ukrainian cities with aerial assaults that have killed thousands of civilians and crippled much of the country’s energy grid for months on end.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
  • Data loss via staff cuts Widespread staff cuts starting in early 2025 across the Department of Health and Human Services, which houses the CDC, crippled much of the agency’s data collection and dissemination.
    — John Kubale, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
Definition of crippled
Adjective
  • Robinovitz recommended slime to Schiller, whose husband had a severe stroke that had left him disabled.
    — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 13 July 2026
  • Two mothers caring for their disabled sons now face losing their homes.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 13 July 2026
Definition of disabled
Verb
  • Many department policies tell officers to move out of the way of a vehicle rather than shoot because of the potential harm to bystanders who could be struck by unintended gunfire or by a careening vehicle if the driver is incapacitated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • His statement included a smiling picture of the senator with his wife Elaine Chao, a tacit response to speculation online that McConnell had died or was incapacitated.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Definition of incapacitated
Verb
  • Undisputed is that De Barros shot and killed one young man and wounded another as a teen outside a recreation center in Waterbury on a Sunday afternoon in October 1996.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
  • Qatar’s Interior Ministry said falling debris wounded a child.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
Definition of wounded
Verb
  • More than 300 people have been injured and 35 others killed in recent US strikes against Iran, the country’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • The team said that forward Mouhamed Gueye injured his left foot in an offseason workout last Wednesday.
    — Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of injured
Verb
  • Residential buildings were badly damaged in the assault, leaving people trapped in multi-story apartment blocks and an entire family that was killed pulled from the rubble, while cars were seen burning on city streets.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • As a bonus, those seasons are ideal for planting a replacement shrub or re-establishing a lawn if it is damaged during the shrub removal.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • An Iranian missile and drone attack has killed nine fighters of an Iranian-Kurdish group based in neighboring Iraq, according to an official from the group.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • The defense attorneys argued Harris fired the first shots that killed Payton friend Turner and set off the barrage that led to the deaths of bystanders Martinez, Alexander, and Davis.
    — Darrell Smith July 16, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of killed

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