mutilated 1 of 2

mutilated

2 of 2

verb

past tense of mutilate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutilated
Verb
  • His vengeance included turning Michigan State in for NCAA violations, leading to probation that crippled the program until the late 1970s.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • As the city litigated and revised the environmental impact report, two devastating storms in December 2023 and February 2024 — the same series that crippled San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier — substantially damaged the wharf.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Connecticut is set to pay nearly $5.9 million to the family of a disabled man who was wrongly imprisoned for more than two decades before he was freed in 2015 when his 1992 conviction in the murder and rape of an 88-year-old grandmother was overturned.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • An Arizona grandmother has been charged with caging her mentally disabled teenage granddaughter and abusing her to death earlier this week.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Workers incapacitated by pregnancy could get an additional two weeks.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In 2010, a UPS cargo flight was involved in a fatal accident when a cargo pallet containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries caused a fire in the hold, which eventually incapacitated the pilots and damaged the flight controls, causing the aircraft to crash in Dubai.
    Barry Collins, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • At least 35 people were injured in the incident, officials said, and at the time some were hospitalized in critical condition.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Within the past 24-hours— according to Gaza’s Health Ministry— more than 59 people have been killed by strikes in the area and more than 270 have been injured.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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