Explore Maimed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mutilated or injured. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Maimed meaning
- Partially or wholly deprived of the use of some part of the body, usually by wounding or injury.
- Impaired or defective in some way.
Using Maimed
- The main meaning on this page is: Partially or wholly deprived of the use of some part of the body, usually by wounding or injury. | Impaired or defective in some way.
- Useful related words include: mutilated, injured, unfit, wounded.
- In the example corpus, maimed often appears in combinations such as: and maimed, maimed and, maimed in.
Context around Maimed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Maimed
- In this selection, "maimed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, severely, men, gis, veterans and perhaps stand out and add context to how "maimed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include been severely maimed only part and can be maimed and even. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "maimed" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with maimed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ninety thousand people are maimed. (5 words)
They allowed us to be beaten, raped and maimed. (9 words)
The walking wounded maimed by land mines of life. (9 words)
The body acceptance and body positivity movements that had finally begun to catch fire have been maimed — perhaps fatally — and the fat bodies that were finally being seen on runways and TV shows are now being pushed back into the shadows. (41 words)
October 7th was a day in which a music festival meant to celebrate life was attacked by Hamas and saw 364 innocent civilians killed, hundreds maimed and brutalized, over 40 festivalgoers taken hostage, and many raped. (36 words)
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed, tens of thousands more have been wounded and maimed, and an almost incomprehensible level of destruction has occurred across much of Ukraine and parts of Russia. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
During the Vietnam War, TV images of maimed GIs and napalmed villages suburbanized opposition to the war and helped hasten the U.S. withdrawal.
She was maimed and set ablaze by gangsters, allegedly led by one Christopher Sunday Mbey, a former aide to ex-state governor, Ben Ayade, over allegations of witchcraft.
The deaths come very early in the film, and a number of characters get maimed or dismembered before the movie’s climax.
They allowed us to be beaten, raped and maimed.
Yet my love of the sport has been compromised repeatedly by the fact that fighters can be maimed and even killed.
A brass band marks Höss’s birthday; another plays under a pergola in freezing winter for maimed veterans; a string quartet (perhaps of Jewish musicians) glides through a Johann Strauss waltz for a Nazi gala.
A statue of Lenin in Sudzha’s main square had been severely maimed – only part of his trunk appeared to remain on the pedestal.
Every day, fighters are killed and maimed in the rural villages and countryside along the frontline.
Hundreds of them have been maimed while many others have paid the supreme price with their lives, yet they remain undaunted and undeterred by taking the battle to the enemies’ territory.
Kafka is tasked with compensating, and approving employment for, men maimed in the First World War.
Ninety thousand people are maimed.
October 7th was a day in which a music festival meant to celebrate life was attacked by Hamas and saw 364 innocent civilians killed, hundreds maimed and brutalized, over 40 festivalgoers taken hostage, and many raped.
Since the 1 February 2021 coup, air strikes have killed, maimed and displaced civilians across the country, targeting schools, IDP camps and other civilian infrastructure.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed, tens of thousands more have been wounded and maimed, and an almost incomprehensible level of destruction has occurred across much of Ukraine and parts of Russia.
The body acceptance and body positivity movements that had finally begun to catch fire have been maimed — perhaps fatally — and the fat bodies that were finally being seen on runways and TV shows are now being pushed back into the shadows.
The walking wounded maimed by land mines of life.
Adamu noted that the attack on school had posed challenges ranging from learners and teachers being killed or maimed and schools closed down.
Black workers on the farms were inhumanly treated and a sizeable number was maimed and killed during the violent take overs.
But in 2010, a spate of shark attacks killed one European tourist and maimed several others off Sharm el-Sheikh.
High school student Joshua Odongo had his genitals maimed and his buttocks gauged by a crocodile in the incident.
Common combinations with maimed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and maimed 15×
- maimed and 11×
- maimed in 8×
- was maimed 3×
- maimed or 2×
- be maimed 2×
- been maimed 2×
- tortured maimed 2×
- killed maimed 2×
- wounded maimed 2×