mutilated 1 of 2

past tense of mutilate

mutilated

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mutilated
Adjective
He was arrested in November 1957 after the body of local hardware store owner and shopkeeper Bernice Worden, 58, was found hanging from hooks and mutilated in his shed. Jr Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025 Authorities discovered Worden’s body — decapitated, mutilated and hung upside down like a deer in the barn — but that was just the beginning. Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025 He was arrested in November 1957 after the body of local hardware store owner and shopkeeper Bernice Worden, 58, was found hanging from hooks and mutilated in his shed. Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025 The videos, which were shared online, showed baby monkeys being crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled and mutilated. Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2025 Though the series' quality had been mutilated by the underwhelming end of Freak Show the previous year, Hotel's complete lack of a narrative anchor was one more knife in AHS' chest. James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025 Arturo Holmes/Getty Images The body found inside the Tesla had been mutilated and heavily decomposed, law enforcement sources told TMZ. Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025 Enslaved people could be whipped, branded, mutilated, or killed without legal consequence to their enslavers. Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutilated
Verb
  • Another hunter had crippled him.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Such a finding could’ve crippled the operations of Google, Meta and X, among various others.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One caller said a delta-8 gummy incapacitated their adult son for several hours.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Another note that came up in the responses to this question is that everyone, of any age, should make sure that there are plans in place for a friend or relative to take care of the dog if the owner is incapacitated or dies.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In a country where disabled people are overrepresented in jails and prisons, psychiatric institutions and police encounters, this isn’t just theoretical.
    Kate Caldwell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The blackout is said to have come after Afghanistan’s 9,350-kilometer fiber optic network was disabled, leaving flights grounded, banks frozen, and millions of citizens and businesses cut off.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to the Gaza Health Ministry, which Hamas oversees, 64,522 Palestinians have been killed in the war and another 163,096 have been wounded.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Two separate shootings at South Carolina State University left one woman dead, a man wounded and triggered a campus-wide lockdown on Saturday night, according to the school and local authorities.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kerzka and the others did their best to comfort them, to bandage small wounds; the most critically injured were already at the hospital.
    Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • When Odegaard came off injured in the first half against Leeds and then Nottingham Forest, Arteta opted to replace him with Ethan Nwaneri, who impressed in both games.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Multiple incidents involving interference allegations and other voting issues were reported in the weeks leading up to the 2024 presidential election, including voter registration ballots being damaged and ballot collection boxes being set on fire.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Gaza Strip itself has been nearly leveled, with the United Nations estimating 78% of structures having been damaged or destroyed, leaving a monumental task of rebuilding for whoever will govern the enclave next.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • More than 260 people were also injured and maimed.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Many more were maimed, and almost all the carnage was the direct and intended result of Iran’s nascent Axis.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Mutilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilated. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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