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   mutilate

   /ˈmjuːtɪleɪt/

   verb

   • 1. inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on: "most of the prisoners had been mutilated" Similar manglemaimdisfigurecut to piecescut uphack upbutcherdismembertear limb from limbtear apartlacerate
   • ▪ inflict serious damage on: "the fine carved screen was mutilated in the 18th century" Similar vandalizedamagedefacespoilmarruindestroywreckviolatedesecrateinformal:trashrare:disfeature

   Word Origin early 16th century: from Latin mutilat- ‘maimed, mutilated, lopped off’, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus ‘maimed’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. mutilator noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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