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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
  • 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
  • Our protagonist has been crippled with doubts about the miller’s daughter and prone to emotional highs and lows.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The site near the Spanish border draws millions of pilgrims each year, especially sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from the famed spring water in the Lourdes grotto where the visions purportedly occurred.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Carey believes Hope Florida is an example of how disabled people’s welfare is disregarded.
    — Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In 2023, Kim was legally declared incapacitated after her cardiac arrest resulted in a brain injury affecting her motor skills, language and memory.
    — Jessica Golden,Alex Sherman, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Reeger became a hero after taking out several Klingon cruisers at the Battle of Zeta Reticuli, but he was actually incapacitated at the time and took the credit for George's heroic actions, stalling Kirk Sr's career in the process.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • When the struggle was over, video footage on social media reviewed by The Associated Press showed two men on the plane's floor, bloodied and wounded.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • According to the account of Netanyahu and other passengers, Machchhar, a father, tried to fight off his co-pilot before being critically wounded with a small knife.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli airstrike in the Jabaliya refugee camp north of the Gaza Strip killed one and injured several others, Gaza's Health Ministry said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Police received a call about a person injured by gunfire, local police chief Vasil Kostadinov said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This began to seem unnecessary, because one either feels and believes that torture is wrong, or else one is damaged.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier this month, intense waves from Hurricane Marie damaged beachfront homes in parts of Southern California and chewed away at beaches.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

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“Mutilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilated. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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