- 1mutilate somebody/something to damage someone's body very severely, especially by cutting or tearing off part of it The body had been badly mutilated.
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- 2mutilate something to damage something very badly synonym vandalize Intruders slashed and mutilated several paintings.
mutilate
verbNAmE//ˈmyut̮lˌeɪt//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they mutilate he / she / it mutilates
past simple mutilated
-ing form mutilating
NAmE//ˌmyut̮lˈeɪʃn//
noun [uncountable, countable] Thousands suffered death or mutilation in the bomb blast.See mutilate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: mutilate