mutilate
/ˈmjuːtɪleɪt/verb
with obj.(一般作be mutilated)
1- inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on（以暴力）严重伤害（或使残废）; 使（肢体）残缺不全：
Brian's body was badly mutilated
布赖恩的身体受到严重伤害
as adj. mutilated mutilated bodies.残缺不全的尸体。
1.1
- inflict serious damage on严重损坏：
the 14th-century church had been partly mutilated in the 18th century.
这座建于14世纪的教堂在18世纪时部分遭到严重破坏。
派生词
mutilation
nounmutilator
noun词源
early 16th cent.: from Latin mutilat- 'maimed, mutilated, lopped off', from the verb mutilare, from mutilus 'maimed'.