Synonyms of mutilated

mutilated 1 of 2

adjective

as in maimed

Related Words

• maimed
• disabled
• paralyzed
• paralytic
• incapacitated
• impaired
• hobbled
• feeble
• debilitated
• hamstrung
• enfeebled
• paraplegic
• decrepit
• infirm
• quadriplegic
• paretic
• hemiplegic
• weakened
• wasted
• weak
• frail

Dissimilar Words

• whole
• well
• able-bodied
• healthy
• sound
• fit
• robust
• hearty
• hale

mutilated

2 of 2

verb

past tense of mutilate

as in crippled

to cause severe or permanent injury to

was lucky not to be mutilated in the car crash

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crippled
• incapacitated
• wounded
• scarred
• injured
• damaged
• maimed
• disabled
• bruised
• killed
• lamed
• hurt
• paralyzed
• dismembered
• mangled
• disfigured
• battered
• mauled
• hit
• lacerated
• murdered
• impaired
• tortured
• hobbled
• hamstrung
• harmed
• gored
• licked
• beat
• winged
• smashed
• bludgeoned
• pasted
• pummeled
• punched
• slapped
• whipped
• banged
• pounded
• smacked
• tormented
• whacked
• buffeted
• roughed (up)
• bashed
• thrashed
• boxed
• hammered
• lashed
• flogged
• thumped
• spanked
• pelted
• laced
• swiped
• bunged up
• belted
• swatted
• socked
• lambasted
• kneecapped
• thwacked
• broke
• drubbed
• pommeled
• walloped

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cured
• healed
• rehabilitated
• remedied
• fixed
• restored
• repaired
• mended
• renewed
• patched
• doctored
• rejuvenated

Example Sentences

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

Though Conahan was convicted of one murder, he was known as the Hog Trail Killer and is believed responsible for the murders of up to a dozen men who were tied up, mutilated and killed in rural areas between Sarasota and Fort Myers in the 1990s. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 18 Aug. 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

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