mutilate
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they mutilate | |
he / she / it mutilates | |
past simple mutilated | |
past participle mutilated | |
-ing form mutilating |
- mutilate somebody/something
to damage somebody’s body very severely, especially by cutting or tearing off part of it 使残废;使残缺不全;毁伤 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- badly
- horribly
- severely
- …
- mutilate something
to damage something very badly synonym vandalize严重损毁;毁坏
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin mutilat- ‘maimed, mutilated, lopped off’, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus ‘maimed’.