mutilate

Definitions


[ˈmjuːtɪleɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- inflict a severe and disfiguring injury on (a person or part of the body)
(e.g: his colleague was mutilated in a work accident)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin mutilat- ‘maimed, mutilated, lopped off’, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus ‘maimed’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries