mutilate
to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
to deprive (a person or animal) of a limb or other essential part.
Origin of mutilate
1synonym study For mutilate
Other words for mutilate
Other words from mutilate
- mu·ti·la·tion, noun
- mu·ti·la·tive, mu·ti·la·to·ry [myoot-l-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /ˈmyut l əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
- mu·ti·la·tor, noun
- self-mu·ti·lat·ing, adjective
- self-mu·ti·la·tion, noun
- un·mu·ti·lat·ed, adjective
- un·mu·ti·la·tive, adjective
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How to use mutilate in a sentence
And have not the religious contests among Christians, and their persecutions and mutilations and burnings cost many more?
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamThe same rule of course applies to other mutilations and contrivances for decreasing the visible efficiency of the individual.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenThey next invited English exiles abroad to join them at Frankfort, saying nothing about their mutilations of the service book.
John Knox and the Reformation | Andrew LangThe wandering fakirs gain the veneration of the lower classes by absurd penances and self-mutilations.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousGriboyedov's comedy had only just been licensed for performance after being first disfigured by the censors' mutilations.
The Jew And Other Stories | Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for mutilate
/ (ˈmjuːtɪˌleɪt) /
to deprive of a limb, essential part, etc; maim; dismember
to mar, expurgate, or damage (a text, book, etc)
Origin of mutilate
1Derived forms of mutilate
- mutilation, noun
- mutilative, adjective
- mutilator, noun
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