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Definition

severely injure or damage — for example by cutting up

The murder mutilates his victims bodies before killing them.

mutilates = severely injures or damages

The madman mutilates art work
Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

mutilated = cut up

It was better than having the Congs get them, maybe mutilating the bodies.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

mutilating = cutting up

He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated. When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

mutilated = disfigured (severely damaged)

The form was mutilated by two second-handers who assumed the right to improve upon that which they had not made and could not equal.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
He shook it out and put it over Bannerman's mutilated body.
Stephen King -- Cujo
It was a question of degrading himself, mutilating himself.
George Orwell -- 1984
"Since you have preserved my narration," said he, "I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity."
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
The women were horribly mutilated and in terrible pain, but at each moan two of the nurses jeered and mimicked the sounds.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
Exhausted, Chuck Muckle leaned over and squinted at the mutilated toy snakes.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
You'll know, when I've put it through fire and water, that the corner you hold in your hand fits the mutilated card?"
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
But I didn't do anything to the soon-to-be-mutilated MAV today.
Andy Weir -- The Martian
Will He accept a mutilated sacrifice?
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
This impression carried her into the future, of which from time to time she had a mutilated glimpse.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Amazed at the power of the blade but not having time even to gawk at his mutilated victim, Drizzt resumed his chase.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
Drink had destroyed his mind, and so he ended in that mutilation-fool that he was.
Homer -- The Odyssey

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

He doesn't rough them up, doesn't sexually assault or mutilate.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
A woman, mutilated and bleeding in his orchard—it was because it was a woman that he was so afraid.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
The mutilated body (it was alive still) was thrown back into the sea.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse

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