Both Uses of
mutilate
in
War and Peace
- When they heard Napoleon's proclamation offering them, as compensation for mutilation and death, the words of posterity about their having been in the battle before Moscow, they cried "Vive l'Empereur!" just as they had cried "Vive l'Empereur!" at the sight of the portrait of the boy piercing the terrestrial globe with a toy stick, and just as they would have cried "Vive l'Empereur!" at any nonsense that might be told them.†
Chpt 10
- That night the doors were again broken open, the padlocks smashed, the books mutilated, and other disorders perpetrated.†
Chpt 13 *
Definition:
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(mutilate) severely injure or damage -- for example by cutting up