mutilate
verb (used with object)
to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts.
had mutilated
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past perfectof mutilate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A childhood accident involving a mill at Celia’s family farm had mutilated her left hand, leaving all but her thumb and forefinger useless.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
As if he had mutilated the language in his fury—and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Hegelianism had closed the eyes of human understanding; Positivism had mutilated and crippled its activities.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
To-day I discovered he had mutilated a third edition of The Tribune.
From Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun
No hot iron had mutilated him, but trouble had wrought refinement, and love divine had left its indelible stamp.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis
