mutilated; mutilating
Definition of mutilate
1
: to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
the child mutilated the book with his scissors a painting mutilated by vandals
2
: to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of : cripple
His arm was mutilated in the accident.
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The first known use of mutilate was in 1534
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