Mutilate

Synonyms: butcher, cut to pieces, cut up, damage, deface, desecrate, destroy, disfeature, disfigure, dismember, hack up, lacerate, maim, mangle, mar, ruin, spoil, tear apart, tear limb from limb, trash, vandalize, violate, wreck

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Frequency: High Frequency

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Mutilate

(verb) destroy or injure severely; “many of the bodies had been mutilated”
(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable; “the 14th-century carved screen had been mutilated”

Mutilate meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)

बुरी तरह नष्ट कर देना, काटना, छांटना, अंग भंग करना

Mutilate Origin

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

Mutilate in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)

Chimps Kill, Mutilate and Cannibalize Member of Own Group.
Woman who threatened to mutilate and kill horses jailed.
Poachers poison, mutilate lions in South Africa.
UNICEF decries high rate of female genital mutilation in the country.
Pakistani troops kill 3 Indian soldiers, mutilate one at LoC.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of mutilate

mutilate = “ate”, if I ate your arm, I mutilate you

Mutilate Pronunciation