mutilate
verb (used with object)
to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts.
mutilates
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present tense formof mutilate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The provision covers “whoever corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates or conceals a record, document or other object...or otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
There was no camaraderie because this system mutilates your emotions - you feel nothing.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2017
Especially if the Common App mutilates the formatting on applicant essays and you say there’s no way to fix it.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2013
If it mutilates the magazine, the kids will buy a second as a collectible.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010
He mutilates it by omitting the more orthodox portion of it—the very portion he would have retained had he believed it to be genuine.
From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg
