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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
Pull some treats from the open coffin at Scotto Funeral Home, on the corner of Court Street and 2nd Place, then head to President near Hoyt to gawk at bloodstained windows and mutilated dolls. — Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026 Ken Russell’s The Devils originally came out in 1971 in a mutilated version, and nobody quite knew what to do with it at the time. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 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
In 1981 Menchú fled to Mexico after her family was killed—her father was accused of guerrilla activities and died in a fire while protesting, her brother was kidnapped, tortured, and killed, and her mother was kidnapped, raped, and mutilated. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026 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
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
  • He is crippled by doubt, convinced that others are gaining on him.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents and purposes had ceased to function.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Fagbemi was standing in front of his disabled vehicle looking under the hood when the driver of a tractor-trailer rear-ended the vehicle about 15 minutes later, according to police.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Seniors, disabled residents, and veterans may be entitled to further tax rate exemptions.
    — Andis Robeznieks, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In many cases, bullets traveled upward through the body, which can indicate a victim was lying down or otherwise incapacitated, according to the forensic analysis.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Freire is accused of raping one of the women while she was incapacitated.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The group said many of those killed and wounded were women and children.
    — YASSIR ABDALLA, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Elk Grove police officers and Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies were investigating Wednesday afternoon at Pleasant Grove High School after two people were wounded in a stabbing.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • When shooting a gun into a moving car, there’s a chance someone will be injured or worse.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Several Americans are believed to have been injured in a high-speed train collision that killed at least 68 people in Spain on Wednesday when one train collided with another that had stopped on the tracks.
    — Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The attack also damaged a nearby care home, with emergency crews evacuating 15 elderly residents, the service said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Research partners recorded the various sounds that drones make when their propellers get chipped or cracked or their motor becomes damaged or begins to fail.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026

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“Mutilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilated. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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