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1. Damage or injure severely
   "The madman mutilates art work";
   - mangle, cut up
    
2. Alter so as to make unrecognizable
   "The tourists mutilated the French language";
   - mangle, murder
    
3. Destroy or injure severely
   "mutilated bodies";
   - mar

Derived forms: mutilated, mutilating, mutilates

Type of: damage, distort, falsify, garble, maim, warp

Encyclopedia: Mutilate