Sample Sentences formutilate (editor-reviewed)
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The murder mutilates his victims bodies before killing them.mutilates = severely damages
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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. (source)mutilated = cut up
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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. (source)mutilated = disfigured (severely damaged)
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It was better than having the Congs get them, maybe mutilating the bodies. (source)mutilating = cutting up
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That I let the Capitol kill the boy and mutilate her without lifting a finger.† (source)
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This woman had allowed her heathen husband to mutilate her dead child.† (source)
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Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down.† (source)
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In all the horror-show homes I'd lived in, I never once saw mutilation like that.† (source)standard suffix: 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.
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I was too busy coming up with ways to mutilate Louisa's perfect little face.† (source)
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Self-mutilating behavior (e.g., wrist-scratching)...† (source)
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Though very ritualized, the conflicts can still end in mutilations.† (source)
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Much discomposed in her nerves (which were previously in the best order) by this threat, she so fearfully mutilates that point of state as to announce "Mr. and Mrs. Cheeseming, least which, Imeantersay, whatsername!" and retires conscience-stricken from the presence.† (source)
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Then he opened it and took out the cards and he took out the photograph of Betty Ward and he took out the american money and then the mexican peso bills which alone were unmutilated.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmutilated means not and reverses the meaning of mutilated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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And that one, the fat one, the glutton, the bomber, the mutilator of innocent children.† (source)
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Exhausted, Chuck Muckle leaned over and squinted at the mutilated toy snakes.† (source)
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She could have shot herself, scratched herself, or indulged in other forms of self-mutilation, but she chose what she probably felt was the weakest option—to at least endure the discomfort of the weather.† (source)
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