mutilate
verb (used with object)
to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts.
mutilator
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a word derived from
mutilate.
Example Sentences
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Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would give a good deal to know," said Cortlandt, "what is pursuing those giants, and whether it is identical or similar to the mutilator of the mastodon.
From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by John Jacob Astor
