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The murder mutilates his victims bodies before killing them.mutilates = severely damages
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The madman mutilates art work
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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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It was better than having the Congs get them, maybe mutilating the bodies. (source)mutilating = cutting 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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That I let the Capitol kill the boy and mutilate her without lifting a finger.† (source)mutilate = severely injure or damage
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Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down.† (source)mutilated = severely injured or damaged
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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)mutilation = severe injury or damagestandard 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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It was an insult to the Goddess to offer any who were blemished or flawed, and as time passed, the Snilfards began to mutilate their girls so they would be spared: they would lop off a finger or an earlobe, or some other small part.† (source)mutilate = severely injure or damage
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If you shout or scream, your time in solitary is extended; if you hurt yourself by refusing to eat or mutilating your body, your time in solitary is extended; if you complain to officers or say anything menacing or inappropriate, your time in solitary is extended.† (source)mutilating = severely injuring or damaging
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Though very ritualized, the conflicts can still end in mutilations.† (source)
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How power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.† (source)mutilates = severely injures or damages
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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)unmutilated = not severely injured or damagedstandard 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)mutilated = severely injured or damaged
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Before she was obsessed with death rock and vampires and self-mutilation; now she was interested in photography (her favorite photographer was Dorothea Lange) and poetry and nature.† (source)mutilation = severe injury or damage
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