mutilate (v.)

  1. destroy or injure severely; The madman mutilates art work

    [ Syn: mangle , cut up ]

  2. alter so as to make unrecognizable; The tourists murdered the French language

    [ Syn: mangle , murder ]

  3. destroy or injure severely; mutilated bodies

    [ Syn: mar ]

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