mutilate

/'mju:tileit/
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Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To inflict serious damage or injury upon a living being, typically by removing or destroying a body part: To cause severe disfigurement or disablement.
    • To damage, ruin, or alter something severely, often by removing an essential part: To spoil the integrity, appearance, or completeness of an object, text, or work.
Examples of Usage
  • Verb:
    • The explosion mutilated his hand beyond recognition.
    • Vandals mutilated the statue by breaking off its arms and head.
    • The editor mutilated the author's manuscript by removing entire chapters.
    • The disease can mutilate the leaves of the plant.
Advanced Usage
  • "to be mutilated": Describes the state of having been severely damaged or disfigured.
    • The documents were mutilated by fire and water.
  • "mutilating": Used as an adjective to describe an action or agent that causes mutilation.
    • The mutilating injury required extensive surgery.
Variants and Related Words
  • Mutilation (n): The act of mutilating or the condition of being mutilated.
    • The mutilation of the historical text was a crime against scholarship.
  • Mutilator (n): A person or thing that mutilates.
    • The serial mutilator of library books was finally caught.
Synonyms
  • Disfigure: To spoil the appearance of something.
  • Maim: To injure a person or animal so that part of the body is permanently damaged.
  • Dismember: To cut or tear off the limbs of.
  • Deface: To spoil the surface or appearance of something.
  • Truncate: To shorten by cutting off a part (often used for texts or data).
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

(Note: "Mutilate" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meaning is typically expressed directly.)

Related Idioms
  • To mutilate beyond recognition: To damage something so severely that its original form or identity is lost.
    • The crash mutilated the car beyond recognition.
Verb
  1. destroy or injure severely
    • mutilated bodies
  2. alter so as to make unrecognizable
    • The tourists murdered the French language
  3. destroy or injure severely
    • The madman mutilates art work

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