Read full poem →When thy lovers went heavily without heart, as men
Whose life was maimed.
Dictionary Entry
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
In a Sentence
“He was maimed by a bear.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “maimed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Tied-up and bandaged, weary, sore and spent,
The maimed and halt, diseased and impotent.
Read full poem →Stand thou! but if thy terrored heart takes flight
Facing maimed Hope and wide-eyed Nevermore,
There is no less one door.
Read full poem →There are builders of new mansions in the Valley of the Shadow,
And among them are the dying and the blinded and the maimed.
Read full poem →The burning hope, the worn expectancy,
The martyred humor, and the maimed allure,
Cry out for time to end his levity,
Read full poem →spiteful sentences of the musketry mingled red cheers. And from
this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
Read full poem →I shall not give you a particular account of the names of the soldiers
that were slain in the town, for many were maimed, and wounded, and
slain; for when they saw that the posts of Ear-gate did shake, and
Read full poem →Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Read full poem →VIII Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, 50
Maimed, mangled by inhuman men;
Or thou upon a desert thrown