Definition Of mutilate
verb
inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.
the leg was badly mutilated
Example Of mutilate
A good start at rectifying the situation would be the swift arrest and visible punishment of those responsible for the massacre, including the mutilators caught on film.
According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated .
Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
‘It kills the living, destroys their flesh and mutilates the bodies of those already dead,’ he says.
But now that he is dead, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition, it seems right to recall what he said.
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