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