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mutilate

C2 Topic:Actions & Processes
US /ˈmjuː.tɪˌleɪt/
Freq #36609

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    destroy or injure severely

    Mutilated bodies.

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Synonyms
1 verb · destroy or injure severely cut up
More maimmangledefacedisfigure
Word family
Forms mutilatedmutilatesmutilating
Derived forms mutilateemutilatermutilationmutilativemutilator

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).

mutilātus Latin
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