Synonyms for maimed

Grammar : Adj

Spell : meym

Phonetic Transcription : meɪm

Top 10 synonyms for maimed

Other synonyms for the word maimed

Définition of maimed

Origin : c.1300, maimen, from Old French mahaignier "injure, wound, muitilate, cripple, disarm," possibly from Vulgar Latin *mahanare (cf. Provençal mayanhar, Italian magagnare), of unknown origin; or possibly from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *mait- (cf. Old Norse meiða "to hurt," related to mad (adj.)), or from PIE root *mai- "to cut." Related: Maimed; maiming.

adj injured
adj hurt

Example sentences :

If I've maimed this poor devil and there are consequences, I'll stand 'em.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

There was a struggle in her maimed arm as she twisted it away, but there was none in her face.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

You can lie here––here––maimed, already starving––and can plan like that?
Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet

On Tuesday we visited the school for maimed soldiers in Paris.
Extract from : « A Journey Through France in War Time » by Joseph G. Butler, Jr.

As it is, both of them are maimed and imperfect on different sides.
Extract from : « Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) » by Leslie Stephen

And if meanwhile he should get maimed like me—what then, Nina?
Extract from : « Man and Maid » by Elinor Glyn

Thieves caught in the act were maimed and allowed to go their way.
Extract from : « Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 » by James Kennedy

His reading had not told him that no maimed persons could be offered to the goddess of the Thugs.
Extract from : « The Opal Serpent » by Fergus Hume

To those admitted, the only exhibition was of the wounded, the maimed, the dying.
Extract from : « Nights » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

I heard that he had met with an accident; they said that he was maimed for life.
Extract from : « The Slave of Silence » by Fred M. White

Antonyms for maimed

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019