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Synonyms for maimed

Grammar : Adj
Spell : meym
Phonetic Transcription : meɪm

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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

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