mutilate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   destroy or injure severely

   Mutilated bodies.

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”).

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