mutilates
- present tense form of mutilate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The law punishes “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 • Dec. 12, 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 not always hated because he mutilates humanity so much, as because his spectacular graft in surgery is sure to be taken as proof conclusive that he is superior in all other departments of therapeutics.
From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown
