mutilated
- adjective
- /ˈmjuːtɪleɪtɪd/
- NSFW
- His leg was mutilated in the accident, leaving him unable to walk properly.
I had to guard a horribly mutilated body and I got assaulted.
- I had to guard a horribly mutilated body and I got assaulted.
- I mean, the guy was left maybe alive, but alive but mutilated.
- But I would think somewhere they would have found weapons or walls or moats, mass graves, mutilated bodies, axes in the skulls, you know, missing limbs, something.
- He wrote about the horribly mutilated groaning and moaning of the men as they died.
Examples
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There they have left their own dead, mutilated and unburied.
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She has a shelter for people who are mutilated by the trains in Chiapas.
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They were just mutilated, like sometimes happens.
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They've been completely just mutilated by by squirrels, mice, birds and probably some raccoons as well.
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Apparently it was badly mutilated, and it had a weird almost like a spine on the front, like we have a sternum that you could see, like a bumpy thing.
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The soldier returned home with a mutilated arm after the battle.
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The dog was found mutilated in the abandoned building, a victim of cruelty.
Synonyms
Having parts that are badly torn or crushed with jagged edges
Having a damaged appearance that makes a face or thing look ruined
Harmed so it works or looks worse
Unable to use a body part because it is badly injured and does not work anymore
To remove the inside parts of something, for example a fish or building
Having a mark or fault that makes it look worse
Antonyms
How Damaged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mutilated comes from the Latin verb mutilare, which meant 'to cut off' or 'to maim'. So, if something is mutilated it has had a part badly damaged or removed, like a limb or the arms of a statue.