Maimed vs Mailed - What's the difference?
maimed | mailed |
(maim)
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed , comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
(mail)
Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
(lb) Spotted.
* 1888 , Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies , page 169:
(mail)
As verbs the difference between maimed and mailed
is that maimed is past tense of maim while mailed is past tense of mail.As an adjective mailed is
armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.maimed
English
Verb
(head)maim
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
*Derived terms
* maimerAnagrams
* * ----mailed
English
Etymology 1
From .Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(en adjective)- from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.
