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MAIMED

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• MAIMED (noun)
The noun MAIMED has 1 sense:

1. people who are wounded

Familiarity information: MAIMED used as a noun is very rare.

• MAIMED (adjective)
The adjective MAIMED has 2 senses:

1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation
2. having a part of the body crippled or disabled

Familiarity information: MAIMED used as an adjective is rare.

• MAIMED (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

• MAIMED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Badly injured, perhaps with amputation

Synonyms:

maimed; mutilated

Context examples:

the maimed right hand twisted and clutched / mutilated victims of the rocket attack

Similar:

injured (usually used of physical or mental injury to persons)

Sense 2

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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)

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