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单词 mutilate
释义

Definition of mutilate in English:

mutilate

verb ˈmjuːtɪleɪtˈmjudlˌeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.

    most of the prisoners had been mutilated
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He slashed her throat with a knife then mutilated her body and face.
    • Identification was proving difficult because some of the bodies were severely mutilated.
    • Many of the bodies were so mutilated that identification was difficult.
    • ‘It kills the living, destroys their flesh and mutilates the bodies of those already dead,’ he says.
    • They were both killed a few days later and their bodies mutilated.
    • The bodies of the victims were mutilated beyond recognition.
    • Once again, scenes of explosions and mutilated bodies are back in our streets.
    • He is one of Scotland's most revered monarchs yet his body was mutilated and his head used as a football by the English foe.
    • He said the second person killed, whose body was severely mutilated, may have been the man carrying the bomb.
    • But now that he is dead, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition, it seems right to recall what he said.
    • When the sisters' father went to the morgue to check, he found his daughter had not only been killed, but her body had been horrifically mutilated.
    • Press reports said the bodies had been deliberately mutilated.
    • David says his aunt and uncle were killed as they tried to escape and their bodies were mutilated.
    • The military rounded up tens of thousands of people, torturing and mutilating many of the prisoners.
    • How is it right to encourage people to mutilate their bodies?
    • There was a moment's pause, a profuse apology, then they resumed their efforts to mutilate the body.
    • Police also said several of the corpses had their faces badly mutilated from the gunshot wounds.
    • Two of the dead were so badly mutilated no one had been able to identify them and they lay unclaimed, he said.
    • According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated.
    • You also mutilated the dead bodies of our soldiers and treated them with indescribable indignities.
    Synonyms
    mangle, maim, disfigure, cut to pieces, cut up, hack up, butcher, dismember, tear limb from limb, tear apart, lacerate
    1. 1.1 Inflict serious damage on.
      the fine carved screen was mutilated in the 18th century
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
      • Were the images destroyed, desecrated or mutilated because they were potent or impotent?
      Synonyms
      vandalize, damage, deface, spoil, mar, ruin, destroy, wreck, violate, desecrate
      North American informal trash
      rare disfeature

Derivatives

  • mutilator

  • noun ˈmjuːtɪleɪtəˌmjud(ə)lˈeɪdər
    • A good start at rectifying the situation would be the swift arrest and visible punishment of those responsible for the massacre, including the mutilators caught on film.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Just like self - mutilators cannot stop cutting, I couldn't stop starving myself or binging and purging.
      • In addition to the family of cannibalistic mutilators, there is a whole bunch of weird-looking people in the basement, doing medical experiments on mutants.
      • Though the film could be seen as a battle of the sexes, the mutilators are themselves all women, while several men support the fight to end the practice.
      • It's in these moments that we forget we're watching a movie about a self mutilator and instead a living, breathing human being.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin mutilat- 'maimed, mutilated, lopped off', from the verb mutilare, from mutilus 'maimed'.

 
 

Definition of mutilate in US English:

mutilate

verbˈmyo͞odlˌātˈmjudlˌeɪt
[with object]usually be mutilated
  • 1Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.

    the leg was badly mutilated
    mutilated bodies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There was a moment's pause, a profuse apology, then they resumed their efforts to mutilate the body.
    • How is it right to encourage people to mutilate their bodies?
    • The military rounded up tens of thousands of people, torturing and mutilating many of the prisoners.
    • Once again, scenes of explosions and mutilated bodies are back in our streets.
    • But now that he is dead, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition, it seems right to recall what he said.
    • Identification was proving difficult because some of the bodies were severely mutilated.
    • They were both killed a few days later and their bodies mutilated.
    • He slashed her throat with a knife then mutilated her body and face.
    • He is one of Scotland's most revered monarchs yet his body was mutilated and his head used as a football by the English foe.
    • Many of the bodies were so mutilated that identification was difficult.
    • When the sisters' father went to the morgue to check, he found his daughter had not only been killed, but her body had been horrifically mutilated.
    • You also mutilated the dead bodies of our soldiers and treated them with indescribable indignities.
    • David says his aunt and uncle were killed as they tried to escape and their bodies were mutilated.
    • Police also said several of the corpses had their faces badly mutilated from the gunshot wounds.
    • Two of the dead were so badly mutilated no one had been able to identify them and they lay unclaimed, he said.
    • The bodies of the victims were mutilated beyond recognition.
    • Press reports said the bodies had been deliberately mutilated.
    • According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated.
    • He said the second person killed, whose body was severely mutilated, may have been the man carrying the bomb.
    • ‘It kills the living, destroys their flesh and mutilates the bodies of those already dead,’ he says.
    Synonyms
    mangle, maim, disfigure, cut to pieces, cut up, hack up, butcher, dismember, tear limb from limb, tear apart, lacerate
    1. 1.1 Inflict serious damage on.
      the 14th-century church had been partly mutilated in the 18th century
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Were the images destroyed, desecrated or mutilated because they were potent or impotent?
      • Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
      Synonyms
      vandalize, damage, deface, spoil, mar, ruin, destroy, wreck, violate, desecrate

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin mutilat- ‘maimed, mutilated, lopped off’, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus ‘maimed’.

 
 
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