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MAIMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maimed mean?
• MAIMED (noun)
The noun MAIMED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: MAIMED used as a noun is very rare.
• MAIMED (adjective)
The adjective MAIMED has 1 sense:
1. having a part of the body crippled or disabled
Familiarity information: MAIMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are wounded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
maimed; wounded
Context example:
they had to leave the wounded where they fell
Hypernyms ("maimed" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a part of the body crippled or disabled
Synonyms:
maimed; mutilated
Similar:
unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)
Context examples
I was in my own room as usual—just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways, every feature of his visage, and stared, as at an object he had never seen before; then approaching nearer, lifted up his fore-paw, whether out of curiosity or mischief I could not tell; but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it, for I durst not strike with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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