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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmutiler
Pronunciation / Transliteration: mytile
"Les assaillants ont menacé de mutiler le prisonnier."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
To inflict severe, violent, and often permanent disfigurement or damage to a body, typically by cutting off or destroying limbs or essential parts.
"The vicious attack left the victim permanently mutilated." - 2
To damage or ruin a valuable object, text, or work of art by severely altering or destroying parts of it.
"Someone had maliciously mutilated the rare ancient manuscript by tearing out several pages."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'mutilatus', past participle of 'mutilare' (to maim or cut off), stemming from 'mutilus' (maimed or docked). It entered the English language in the mid-16th century, initially retaining its primary physical sense of inflicting severe bodily injury or amputation.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Mutilate" is said worldwide
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mutiler
Transliteration: mytile
"Les assaillants ont menacé de mutiler le prisonnier."
verstümmeln
Transliteration: ferstymeln
"Der Unfall drohte seinen Arm zu verstümmeln."
mutilare
Transliteration: mutillare
"L'esplosione ha rischiato di mutilare molti civili."
mutilar
Transliteration: mutilar
"La brutal agresión logró mutilar la vida del joven."
mutilar
Transliteration: mutilar
"As feridas foram graves o suficiente para mutilar o soldado."
विकृत करना
Transliteration: vikrit karna
"दुर्घटना ने उसके शरीर को गंभीर रूप से विकृत कर दिया।"
肢解
Transliteration: zhījiě
"残忍的行径将尸体严重肢解。"
절단하다
Transliteration: jeoldanhada
"그 사고로 인해 그의 신체가 심각하게 절단되었습니다."
切断する
Transliteration: setsudan suru
"事故により体の重要な部分が切断された。"
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