Object

• cattle: These critters abduct humans, mutilate cattle and invade our skies with impunity.

• corps: How could a God who smiled at those mutilated corpses in Omagh be a loving God?

• corpse: In the morning they found her mutilated corpse in a ditch with her breasts cut off.

• body: From there came his mutilated body, shot all over.

• victim: Other cases might occur in medico-legal investigations, as when the hands only of some mutilated victim were found.

Preposition: at

• end: That Mark is mutilated at the end is one of the most certain results of textual criticism.

• beginning: Spitta and others have held that Mark has been mutilated at the beginning, as at the end.

Adjective complement

• English: Then he noticed a suggestion of mutilated English about certain of the words.

Modifying Another Word

• horribly: They are all human victims who die or are mutilated horribly for no good cause.

• surgically: That animals are deliberately poisoned, surgically mutilated, deprived of food and water is bad enough.

• terribly: This cannot have been a pleasant task, for some of the bodies were terribly mutilated.

• badly: A body that had been too badly mutilated for positive identification had been dragged out of the river Avon.

• sadly: Our other messmate suffered still more than the Swede; he was sadly mutilated about the legs and thighs with splinters.

• severely: This included animals which had been blinded, severely mutilated, or with open wounds.

Preposition: beyond

• recognition: KR: Never mind my son, your body may be mutilated beyond recognition but your spirit will live forever.

Preposition: in

• way: Their bodies are split or mutilated in some way reflecting their sin.

Infinitive complement

• make: MULDER: So you're saying he was drowned first and then mutilated to make it look like a signature execution?

• suit: No; all the kingdoms of the earth shall be hacked about and mutilated to suit her.

Preposition: for

• life: Some of the survivors of attacks have been mutilated for life.