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mutilated

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verb

past tense of mutilate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mutilated
Adjective
The mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols was found in London’s East End slums. — USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 According to the Times coverage of the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the scenes shown in the classroom included autopsies, decaying cadavers and live animals being butchered, mutilated and tortured. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026 But the most difficult parts also offer ways forward — news that arrives via a skull, a mutilated body, evidence of closure in many respects of the word. — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026 The case back then also involved the bodies of naked, mutilated women, plus all the sexism and homophobia that were pervasive in police work in 1998 and are apparently ship-shape today. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Verb
The equipment was mutilated and ash-covered, and the digital camera’s lens was sheared off. — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 In the comics, they’re later mutilated and replaced with metallic wings by Apocalypse, who transforms Angel into the darker, blue-skinned Archangel. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 All of them were naked, mutilated and left in desolate spots. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 Gein murdered at least two women, as well as illegally exhumed and mutilated multiple corpses, in the 1940s and 1950s. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 Days later, Till’s mutilated, bloated body was fished out of the Tallahatchie River. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026 Clayface stars Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines, Suspicion) as Matt Hagen, a promising actor in Gotham City who’s left mutilated by a mob boss for sleeping with the gangster’s girlfriend. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026 Rhaenyra’s aunt, Rhaenys, is slain in the fight, and Aegon is mutilated, his own dragon left for dead on the field. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026 Sam’s face was mutilated beyond recognition; his mother identified him by a tattoo on his chest that read Mother, and promptly collapsed. — Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutilated
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Lord Corlys Velaryon and his fleet have the city blockaded, while Team Black commands from Dragonstone and Daemon battles in the Riverlands and Aemond broods on the throne, which he’s taken from his maimed brother.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wildflower opened in 2024, when the industry was crippled by shrinking studio budgets and reeling from the aftermath of twin labor strikes.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Swaney founded WatchUr6, a cybersecurity company, in 2022 after seeing news reports about a hospital crippled by a cyberattack.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The Support Staff Basic Training program is intended for emerging, diverse writers — BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, over 40 years old — who are based in the eastern half of the United States.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The manufacturer warns they should not be used on high-risk populations such as kids, pregnant women or disabled people.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Levin said that nothing could justify Lewie’s firing several shots at McConnell after he was incapacitated on the ground.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh (played by Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer hired to finish the bestselling book series of renowned author Verity Crawford after an accident leaves her incapacitated.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Israeli strikes in northern and southern Gaza killed three Palestinians and wounded at least a dozen others, according to health officials at Gaza hospitals.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • However, a stabbing at a Catholic convent in southeastern Poland last month left one person dead and four others wounded.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Five Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 injured this week in such attacks, according to Palestinian officials.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The status of starting edge rusher Marquise Lightfoot, who was injured against Clemson, remains up in the air.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Merz and Zelenskyy visited a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv that was damaged in a Russian attack that killed two people on Monday, as air raid sirens sounded across the capital.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Strikes on Kyiv’s bridges continue Russian attacks damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge over the Dnieper River again on Sunday.
    — Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026

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“Mutilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilated. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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