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verb

past tense of mutilate

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Recent Examples of mutilated
Adjective
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
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 One knight short for the trial of seven that will determine if he is freed or if he will be mutilated by the crown, Dunk appeals to the honor of all knights present, asking them to take up his cause. Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 June 2026 The victims in Louisiana and Florida were all stabbed, with some mutilated and several appeared posed suggestively. Corin Cesaric, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026 At day-break, a group of hostile Wendats and Potawatomis killed and mutilated several British soldiers. Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 Ravelo was the leader and organizer of invitation-only internet groups dedicated to the sharing and discussion of videos depicting monkeys being mutilated and tortured, the DOJ said in a statement. Sofia Saric may 24, Miami Herald, 24 May 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
  • Africa desperately needs them, crippled by a fundamental lack of traditional national film funding incentives.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Winds cripple aerial firefighting Nearly 500 firefighters and 23 aircraft were deployed, but gale-force winds drove flames through dry forest and crippled the response, preventing some aircraft from reaching the sea to collect water.
    Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell found that Wisconsin’s paper-only absentee ballot system violates the rights of disabled voters who cannot complete a paper ballot without assistance.
    Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The judge declined to order elections officials to offer electronic ballots to qualified disabled voters, saying the parties still disputed whether that was a reasonable remedy.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The medical professional also checked the boxes saying Grayson would be incapacitated within six months and his condition was unlikely to improve.
    Jerry Nowicki, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • The doctor did not, however, deem Grayson medically incapacitated, finding that the cancer does not interfere with his ability to take care of himself in daily life.
    Ava Kelley, NBC news, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • In Russia, five people were wounded when a fire broke out at the Ilsky Oil Refinery in the southern Krasnodar region due to debris from a falling drone, local officials said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • More than 20 people were wounded and nine remained in critical condition following the shooting.
    Connor Greene, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • On Monday, an 18-year-old was seriously injured after falling onto an elevated platform.
    Ubah Ali, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Senior local official Dagnachew Azbite told the BBC that seven people had been found injured, with five of the victims sustaining serious injuries.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For dry, damaged, or chemically treated hair, most experts recommend using a rinse-out mask once or twice a week.
    Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Local officials in McCaysville, which sits at the Georgia-Tennessee border, have declared a state of emergency after the downpours flooded the town and damaged the water treatment plant, causing a shortage of drinking water.
    Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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

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