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What (who) is Mutilate - definition
ACT OF PHYSICAL INJURY THAT DEGRADES THE APPEARANCE OR FUNCTION OF ANY LIVING BODY
Maiming; MAIM; Maim; Mutilated; Mutilate; Mutilating; Animal mutilation
![Police surgeon]]'s drawing showing the mutilated body of [[Catherine Eddowes]], [[Jack the Ripper]]'s fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CatherineEddowesJacktheRipperCanomicleVictimFourMitreSq.30091888a.jpg?width=200 "Police surgeon]]'s drawing showing the mutilated body of [[Catherine Eddowes]], [[Jack the Ripper]]'s fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888.")
![[[Fredegund]] ordering the mutilation of Olericus](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Un pauvre averti Gontran - Frédégonde ordonne la mutilation d'Olericus.jpg?width=200 "[[Fredegund]] ordering the mutilation of Olericus")
Mutilate
·noun A cetacean, or a sirenian.
II. Mutilate ·adj Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
III. Mutilate ·adj Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
IV. Mutilate ·vt To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
mutilate
v. a.
1.
Disfigure, maim, cripple.
2.
Mangle, injure.
mutilate
¦ verb injure or damage severely, typically so as to disfigure.
Derivatives
mutilation noun
mutilator noun
Origin
C16: from L. mutilat-, mutilare 'maim'.
Wikipedia
Mutilation
Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life. It can also refer to alterations that render something inferior, ugly, dysfunctional, or imperfect. In modern times, the term has an overwhelmingly negative connotation.
Examples of use of Mutilate
1. The rebels often mutilate survivors by slicing off lips and ears.
2. Featuring four superfluous key changes, the song has not lost its power to fold and mutilate listeners. 4.
3. But the hate mail kept coming, with threats to shave the teachers‘ heads as well as mutilate their faces.
4. From hideouts in southern Sudans wild Imatong Mountains, he sends these child soldiers back into Uganda to kill civilians, mutilate survivors and abduct more children.
5. If they want to mutilate their bodies and make a mockery of themselves, go ahead, but don‘t drag a defenceless child into it.