mutilate
[verb]
Synonyms:
- maim, amputate, cut up, damage, disfigure, dismember, injure, lacerate, mangle
- distort, adulterate, bowdlerize, censor, cut, damage, expurgate

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Related Words: damage, hurt, injure, mar, spoil, deface

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mu‧ti‧late /ˈmjuːtəleɪt, ˈmjuːtɪleɪt/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: past participle of mutilare, from mutilus 'mutilated']

1. to severely and violently damage someone’s body, especially by cutting or removing part of it:
The prisoners had been tortured and mutilated.
extra protection for mental patients who might mutilate themselves

2. to damage or change something so much that it is completely spoiled:
The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
—mutilation /ˌmjuːtəˈleɪʃən, ˌmjuːtɪˈleɪʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mutilate
verb
ADV. badly, horribly, severely, terribly A lot of the bodies had been badly mutilated.

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