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mutilate
transitive verb mutilated, mutilating
- to cut off or damage a limb or other important part of (a person or animal)
- to damage, injure, or otherwise mar, esp. by removing an essential part or parts: to mutilate a book by censorship
Related Forms:
- mutilation noun
- mutilative adjective
- mutilator noun
See mutilate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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