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mutilatemu‧ti‧late /ˈmjuːtəleɪt/ verb [transitive] mutilateOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of mutilare, from mutilus ‘mutilated’ VERB TABLEmutilate |
Present | I, you, we, they | mutilate | | he, she, it | mutilates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | mutilated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have mutilated | | he, she, it | has mutilated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had mutilated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will mutilate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have mutilated |
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Present | I | am mutilating | | he, she, it | is mutilating | | you, we, they | are mutilating | Past | I, he, she, it | was mutilating | | you, we, they | were mutilating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been mutilating | | he, she, it | has been mutilating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been mutilating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be mutilating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been mutilating |
- Blood poured down from her mutilated face.
- A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it.
- First, the sisters mutilate their feet to make the slipper fit.
- Mariama was the first woman in the village to stand up against the traditional practice and refused to have her daughters mutilated.
- Police in Prague thought the pics were of real mutilated bodies.
- The third group includes patients who mutilate themselves, usually in the context of a serious psychiatric illness.
- Two shells fell shortly before 9 p. m. that night, killing 74 people and injuring or mutilating nearly 200 more.
- With other mutilated veterans in Rumania, later, he had been thrown from a moving train.
1to severely and violently damage someone’s body, especially by cutting or removing part of it: The prisoners had been tortured and mutilated. extra protection for mental patients who might mutilate themselves2to damage or change something so much that it is completely spoiled: The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.—mutilation /ˌmjuːtəˈleɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable] |