mutilate

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mu·ti·late /ˈmjuːtəleɪt/ verb [transitiveT]

1 INJUREto severely and violently damage someone’s body, especially by cutting or removing part of it 残害〔某人的身体〕，使断肢，使伤残

The prisoners had been tortured and mutilated.

犯人遭受了酷刑并被殴打致残。

extra protection for mental patients who might mutilate themselves

对可能自残的精神病患者的额外保护

2 DAMAGEto damage or change something so much that it is completely spoiled 完全损毁；使支离破碎

The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.

雕像在十八世纪末受到严重破坏。

—mutilation /ˌmjuːtəˈleɪʃən/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

mutilate• Mariama was the first woman in the village to stand up against the traditional practice and refused to have her daughters mutilated.• Police in Prague thought the pics were of real mutilated bodies.• Blood poured down from her mutilated face.• Two shells fell shortly before 9 p. m. that night, killing 74 people and injuring or mutilating nearly 200 more.• A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it.• First, the sisters mutilate their feet to make the slipper fit.• The third group includes patients who mutilate themselves, usually in the context of a serious psychiatric illness.• With other mutilated veterans in Rumania, later, he had been thrown from a moving train.

Origin mutilate

(1500-1600) Latin past participle of mutilare, from mutilus “mutilated”

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