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mutilate

mu·ti·late

UK/ˈmjuː.tɪˌleɪt/ US/ˈmjuː.tɪ.lət/ rare archaic obsolete

verb

1.

destroy or injure severely

  • “The madman mutilates art work”
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2.

alter so as to make unrecognizable

  • “The tourists murdered the French language”
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3.

destroy or injure severely

  • “mutilated bodies”
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Origin

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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