as in to cripple
to cause severe or permanent injury to
was lucky not to be mutilated in the car crash
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Recent Examples of mutilate
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Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
Koch was never convicted of mutilating the corpses of the people who were murdered in Buchenwald; though some gruesome items were discovered there, there was no proof that they were connected to her.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
According to the Statesman Journal, Brudos admitted to mutilating the bodies of his victims.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
More than 3,000 Hamas fighters gunned down civilians, torturing and mutilating some of them in their own homes, still in their pajamas.
—Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
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Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
Koch was never convicted of mutilating the corpses of the people who were murdered in Buchenwald; though some gruesome items were discovered there, there was no proof that they were connected to her.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
According to the Statesman Journal, Brudos admitted to mutilating the bodies of his victims.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
More than 3,000 Hamas fighters gunned down civilians, torturing and mutilating some of them in their own homes, still in their pajamas.
—Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
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Since then, they've been forced to work remotely — at a time when the government was doling out return-to-office mandates — preventing access to labs and crippling the center's mission of embedding NASA climate scientists within international academia.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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The agency warned that depleting the reserve could cripple the Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP) program, which provides emergency food assistance after natural disasters.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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He is accused of slipping incapacitating drugs into victims’ food or drinks before assaulting them between 2021 and 2024.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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In still other situations, lapses in common knowledge can incapacitate people who really, really need to work together.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Across Japan, at least 13 people have been killed and more than 100 injured since April this year, according to government figures – the highest numbers since records began in 2006.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Four students and the Suburban's driver were transported to a local hospital, Murphy said, adding that the bus driver was not injured.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Nov. 2025
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and maimed in the war; a United Nations commission said in September that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
21 Oct. 2025
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By holding a button, a simple katana suddenly becomes a 10-foot blade, or a rapier sprouts a demolition-grade power drill — all capable of viscerally dismembering and maiming foes.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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More than 130 people were killed in the attacks and scores more were wounded.—
Mark Morales,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Nidal Hasan committed a mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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In recent years, scientists have been able to identify many cytokines and create targeted therapies for a host of disabling, sometimes fatal, diseases.—
Jason Liebowitz,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Victims are then asked to disable Windows Defender before installation, effectively disarming their own protection before running the malware.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Over the course of four months in 1956-57, Israeli forces killed as many as 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Listeria infects about 1,250 people in the United States each year, according to the CDC, and kills about 172.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Nov. 2025
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The broadcast offered a rare look inside the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) facilities, showing launchers still scarred by shrapnel from Israeli strikes and allegedly depicting missiles being fired at Israel during the 12-day war.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Too much scratching can also break the skin, which can lead to infection or scarring.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Mutilate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilate. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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