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Definition of mutilate in English: mutilateverb ˈmjuːtɪleɪtˈmjudlˌeɪt [with object]1Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on. （以暴力）严重伤害（或使残废）；使（肢体）残缺不全 most of the prisoners had been mutilated Example sentencesExamples - He slashed her throat with a knife then mutilated her body and face.
- Identification was proving difficult because some of the bodies were severely mutilated.
- Many of the bodies were so mutilated that identification was difficult.
- ‘It kills the living, destroys their flesh and mutilates the bodies of those already dead,’ he says.
- They were both killed a few days later and their bodies mutilated.
- The bodies of the victims were mutilated beyond recognition.
- Once again, scenes of explosions and mutilated bodies are back in our streets.
- He is one of Scotland's most revered monarchs yet his body was mutilated and his head used as a football by the English foe.
- He said the second person killed, whose body was severely mutilated, may have been the man carrying the bomb.
- But now that he is dead, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition, it seems right to recall what he said.
- When the sisters' father went to the morgue to check, he found his daughter had not only been killed, but her body had been horrifically mutilated.
- Press reports said the bodies had been deliberately mutilated.
- David says his aunt and uncle were killed as they tried to escape and their bodies were mutilated.
- The military rounded up tens of thousands of people, torturing and mutilating many of the prisoners.
- How is it right to encourage people to mutilate their bodies?
- There was a moment's pause, a profuse apology, then they resumed their efforts to mutilate the body.
- Police also said several of the corpses had their faces badly mutilated from the gunshot wounds.
- Two of the dead were so badly mutilated no one had been able to identify them and they lay unclaimed, he said.
- According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated.
- You also mutilated the dead bodies of our soldiers and treated them with indescribable indignities.
Synonyms mangle, maim, disfigure, cut to pieces, cut up, hack up, butcher, dismember, tear limb from limb, tear apart, lacerate - 1.1 Inflict serious damage on.
严重损坏 the fine carved screen was mutilated in the 18th century Example sentencesExamples - Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
- Were the images destroyed, desecrated or mutilated because they were potent or impotent?
Synonyms vandalize, damage, deface, spoil, mar, ruin, destroy, wreck, violate, desecrate North American informal trash rare disfeature
OriginEarly 16th century: from Latin mutilat- 'maimed, mutilated, lopped off', from the verb mutilare, from mutilus 'maimed'. Definition of mutilate in US English: mutilateverbˈmyo͞odlˌātˈmjudlˌeɪt [with object]usually be mutilated1Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on. （以暴力）严重伤害（或使残废）；使（肢体）残缺不全 the leg was badly mutilated 残缺不全的尸体。 Example sentencesExamples - There was a moment's pause, a profuse apology, then they resumed their efforts to mutilate the body.
- How is it right to encourage people to mutilate their bodies?
- The military rounded up tens of thousands of people, torturing and mutilating many of the prisoners.
- Once again, scenes of explosions and mutilated bodies are back in our streets.
- But now that he is dead, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition, it seems right to recall what he said.
- Identification was proving difficult because some of the bodies were severely mutilated.
- They were both killed a few days later and their bodies mutilated.
- He slashed her throat with a knife then mutilated her body and face.
- He is one of Scotland's most revered monarchs yet his body was mutilated and his head used as a football by the English foe.
- Many of the bodies were so mutilated that identification was difficult.
- When the sisters' father went to the morgue to check, he found his daughter had not only been killed, but her body had been horrifically mutilated.
- You also mutilated the dead bodies of our soldiers and treated them with indescribable indignities.
- David says his aunt and uncle were killed as they tried to escape and their bodies were mutilated.
- Police also said several of the corpses had their faces badly mutilated from the gunshot wounds.
- Two of the dead were so badly mutilated no one had been able to identify them and they lay unclaimed, he said.
- The bodies of the victims were mutilated beyond recognition.
- Press reports said the bodies had been deliberately mutilated.
- According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated.
- He said the second person killed, whose body was severely mutilated, may have been the man carrying the bomb.
- ‘It kills the living, destroys their flesh and mutilates the bodies of those already dead,’ he says.
Synonyms mangle, maim, disfigure, cut to pieces, cut up, hack up, butcher, dismember, tear limb from limb, tear apart, lacerate - 1.1 Inflict serious damage on.
严重损坏 the 14th-century church had been partly mutilated in the 18th century 这座建于14世纪的教堂在18世纪时部分遭到严重破坏。 Example sentencesExamples - Were the images destroyed, desecrated or mutilated because they were potent or impotent?
- Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
Synonyms vandalize, damage, deface, spoil, mar, ruin, destroy, wreck, violate, desecrate
OriginEarly 16th century: from Latin mutilat- ‘maimed, mutilated, lopped off’, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus ‘maimed’. |