mutilate

How to use mutilate in a sentence

• I should add that professional landscape companies don’t mutilate trees this way, but there are many small-scale operators who do.

  It’s tree-pruning season. Here’s how to do it without resorting to ‘crape murder.’ | Adrian Higgins | January 27, 2021 | Washington Post

• If you were Czar himself, I should not hesitate to denounce you as the tyrant and mutilator of a poor defenseless woman.

  The Czar's Spy | William Le Queux

• At any rate, the mutilator of the friar was yielded, and in due course was hanged by the Spanish authorities.

  Outlines of Zui Creation Myths | Frank Hamilton Cushing

• M. Alary, the mutilator of Don Giovanni, would surely not be encouraged to try his hand on Weber's masterpiece?

  History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time | Henry Sutherland Edwards

• Aretino, who had assumed the part of inquisitor and mutilator to gratify his private spite, survived triumphant.

  Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature | John Addington Symonds