Synonyms of mutilating

mutilating

verb

present participle of mutilate

as in crippling

to cause severe or permanent injury to

was lucky not to be mutilated in the car crash

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crippling
• incapacitating
• wounding
• injuring
• maiming
• disabling
• damaging
• killing
• scarring
• bruising
• hurting
• dismembering
• laming
• paralyzing
• hitting
• disfiguring
• mangling
• beating
• murdering
• harming
• battering
• impairing
• torturing
• hamstringing
• mauling
• licking
• hobbling
• lacerating
• smashing
• slapping
• winging
• smacking
• goring
• whipping
• pasting
• punching
• whacking
• bludgeoning
• tormenting
• pounding
• banging
• pummeling
• hammering
• bashing
• roughing (up)
• pelting
• flogging
• thumping
• lashing
• thrashing
• swatting
• boxing
• belting
• lambasting
• swiping
• socking
• buffeting
• spanking
• breaking
• kneecapping
• thwacking
• lacing
• bunging up
• walloping
• pommeling
• drubbing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• healing
• curing
• rehabilitating
• remedying
• fixing
• repairing
• restoring
• patching
• mending
• renewing
• doctoring
• rejuvenating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mutilating

East Village resident Daniel Rakowitz was charged with killing and mutilating a female acquaintance in 1989, then trying to get rid of the evidence by making soup out of her remains and serving it in Tompkins Square Park. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026

The 21-year-old pleaded not guilty last month to charges including first-degree murder with special circumstances, lewd and lascivious acts with an individual under 14 and mutilating a body. — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026

Guess which mowing league isn't mutilating hedgehogs? — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026

Tony Lee Hughes, 38, of the 600 block of Camelot Manor, is charged with Level 6 felonies of killing a domestic animal and mutilating a vertebrate animal. — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026

Apparently, their definition of resistance is to gang rape as many women and men of all ages as possible before torturing, mutilating and murdering them. — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026

Burke is formally charged with murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body. — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026

The strikes have also ripped through the historic palaces my father proudly showed me as a child, mutilating Iran’s ancient cultural heritage. — Alex Shams, Time, 14 Mar. 2026

Nationwide, the first successful prosecution happened in 2016 when a Houston man was sentenced to five years for creating videos that featured a woman mutilating and killing puppies, chickens and kittens and distributing them on the internet. — Jay Weaver, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026