mutilate

verb/mutiˈlaɾ/medium

mu·ti·lar

Definitions

1To inflict a severe and disfiguring injury on (a body part).

The accident mutilated his hand.

The corpse had been mutilated.

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mutilate a bodymutilate a limbbadly mutilated

2To damage, alter, or spoil severely, especially by removing essential parts.

Censors mutilated the original manuscript.

The painting was mutilated by graffiti.

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mutilate a textmutilate a work of artmutilated version

Do latim 'mutilare' (cortar, truncar).