mutilated
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Mr. Hemming writes that upon Miller’s death, doctors found 23 battle scars, a large wound on his right abdominal cartilage, two rifle balls lodged in his liver, and mutilated fingers on his left hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and even turn less-charismatic animals like cicadas into horrifyingly mutilated zombies.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2024
Construction cranes were used to lift out the burnt-out and mutilated vehicles.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024
It will also tackle a separate animal welfare issue by closing a loophole which allows dogs and cats which have been mutilated to be brought into Britain.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024
The twenty-five cities were not sited strategically and did not have defensive walls; no evidence of warfare, such as burned buildings or mutilated corpses, has been found.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing mutilated
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Nine
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