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mutilated

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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
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 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
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
  • Over the years this bag has crippled numerous hotel bellmen attempting to lift it.
    John Ficarra, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Africa desperately needs them, crippled by a fundamental lack of traditional national film funding incentives.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Her backstory is littered with half-truths and deceptions, including a lie that her mentally disabled younger sister was murdered after being kidnapped.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In addition to simulating the dispersal of defense production, Taiwan is throttling the island’s mobile network to show civilians what happens when internet services are disabled.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 11 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
  • Russia’s Bashkortostan governor, Radiy Khabirov, said only that a drone attack wounded two civilians and started a fire in an industrial zone of Salavat.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The cousin ordered food, stepped away to go to the bathroom, then returned to see Arboleda wounded on the street, the feds allege.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Authorities are searching for the driver of a van who struck a man in a wheelchair in Dania Beach and fled the scene, leaving the victim injured and his wheelchair damaged.
    Abby Dodge, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Ten people were injured, including seven crew members, ​two Coast Guard personnel and one NRF member, according to the Coast Guard.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • More than 1,300 homes were damaged when the quake struck East Nusa Tenggara province on Saturday, with nearly 250 were destroyed on Flores alone.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Corn is reportedly the crop most commonly damaged by feral swine.
    Chris Boyer, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2026

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“Mutilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilated. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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