MAIMED Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

maimed 1 of 2

adjective

as in mutilated

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maimed

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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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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

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

Adjective

And the concept, in his eyes, isn’t exclusive to the relationship between disabled people and their aides.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Aug. 2026
That said, some folks, like the local nurse (Amanda Davis), agree to come out to the encampment and treat the residents, many of whom are physically disabled, suffer from mental disorders or are war veterans probably still in the throes of PTSD.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of disabled

Verb

This is somewhat reassuring since FEMA now appears to be incapacitated.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
The medical professional also checked the boxes saying Grayson would be incapacitated within six months and his condition was unlikely to improve.

— Jerry Nowicki, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of incapacitated

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Russia’s Bashkortostan governor, Radiy Khabirov, said only that a drone attack wounded two civilians and started a fire in an industrial zone of Salavat.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
The cousin ordered food, stepped away to go to the bathroom, then returned to see Arboleda wounded on the street, the feds allege.

— John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of wounded

Verb

One person was killed and two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were injured when a small plane and a state police helicopter were involved in a collision in central Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening, authorities said.

— Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
In total, in the last 24 hours, the death toll in Ukraine has reached 25 people, with a further 132 injured throughout the country, according to reports from regional military administrations.

— Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of injured

Verb

Prosecutors allege Shakur was killed to avenge the rapper's entourage attacking Davis' nephew, Anderson, a few hours earlier at the MGM Grand after a boxing match involving Mike Tyson.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Forty of those have been delivered, Skibitskiy said, and two are suspected to have been used in Radushne, in the Dnipro Region, on 30 July in an attack that killed at least four children from the same family.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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