mutilate
verb (used with object)
to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts.
unmutilated
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a word derived from
mutilate.
Example Sentences
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He sets young Hubert's struggle to stay unmutilated against a background of intriguing conjectures and sly jokes.
From Time Magazine Archive
His system of indexing was so precise that he could lay an instant finger on any fact of which he was in search, and nobody who ventured to impugn his facts escaped from him unmutilated.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
But when a foreigner offered the magazine to me regularly, unmutilated, I did not refuse it.
From Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood
It is a pity that many leaves have been torn out; for if unmutilated, the record would probably have enabled one to guess whether he had already planned his Essay on Fairies.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
By what miracle has so truth-telling a work been able to appear unmutilated, at a time when so many free words, infinitely less free, have been censored?
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
