Mutilate

Definition: Mutilate

Mutilate

Verb

1. Destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work".

2. "The tourists murdered the French language".

3. Destroy, as of a limb.

Date "mutilate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Mutilate

Synonyms: cut up (v), disfigure (v), mangle (v), mar (v), murder (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amorphism	Verb: deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar.
Deterioration	Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.
Nonaddition Subtraction	Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mutilate

English words defined with "mutilate": Mutilating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mutilate": chadless ♦ Ku-Klux-Klan. (references)

Etymologies containing "mutilate": Coloboma ♦ Mutilous, Mutton. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Now that Billy tried to mutilate her, do you think Sydney would go out with me? (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you. (Flirting with Disaster; writing credit: David O. Russell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Do Not Fold Spindle or Mutilate (reference) Do not fold, staple, or mutilate! A book about people (reference) Figlie d'Africa mutilate : indagini epidemiologiche sull'escissione in Italia (reference) Mutilate (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Go Forth & Mutilate (reference) Mutilate Us (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Nigeria	Like most vigilante groups, the Bakassi Boys killed suspected criminals rather than turn them over to police; however, in some cases, the Bakassi Boys chose to mutilate alleged criminals, such as cutting off their hands or arms, rather than killing them outright. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Mutilate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 57.89% of the time. "Mutilate" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	57.89%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	26.32%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	15.79%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mutilate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deface, deform, deprave, distort, falsify, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty, warp), sakatoj (beat up, cripple, lame, maim, mangle, maul), gjymtoj (cripple, disable, dismember, hackle, haggle, lame, limb, maim). (various references)

Arabic		‏مثل ب, ‏جذم, ‏جذع (body, mutilation, stem, stock, trunk), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mangle, mutilation, resect, resection, stump, take off, truncate). (various references)

Bulgarian		развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, emasculate, hamstring, hock, hough, lame, maim, mangle, nip), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, falsify, mangle, pervert, torture, travesty, turn about, twist). (various references)

Chinese		切断 (Mutilated, Mutilating, Mutilation, sever, severance, severed, severing). (various references)

Czech		zmrzaèit (cripple, maim), zkomolit (distort, hack about). (various references)

Farsi		فلج کردن (Cripple, Freeze, Palsy, Paralyze), فلج (Palsy, Paralysis), ناقص کردن (Mar, Truncate), ناقص (Half, Halfbaked, Imperfect, Incomplete, Incorrect, Malformed, Rudimentary, Sketchy, Skimpy, Unperfect, Violator), قلب وتحریف شده , تحریف شدن , اخته کردن (Castrate, Castration, Emasculate, Geld, Neuter), بی اندام کردن (Mar). (various references)

Finnish		typistää (abridge, crop, cut short, dock, maim), silpoa (dismember, maim), runnella (mangle, maul, ravage). (various references)

French		mutiler. (various references)

German		verstümmeln (distort, garble, maim, mangle, to garble, to mutilate). (various references)

Greek		κουτσουρεύω (truncate). (various references)

Hebrew		לקטוע איבר (amputate), לעקר (castrate, emasculate, sterilize), ל�"טיל מום (lame). (various references)

Hungarian		megrongál (damage, dilapidate, injure, spoil, to blemish, to damage, to impair, to injure, to mar, to mutilate, to scathe, to waste), megcsonkít (castrate, to dismember, to maim, to mangle, to mutilate, to stump, to truncate, truncate). (various references)

Italian		mutilare (cripple, deface, maim). (various references)

Manx		lhottey (hurt, injure, mutilation, wound, wounding). (various references)

Pig Latin		utilatemay

Portuguese		mutilar (cripple, disable, garble, hack, hackle, maim, mangle, truncate), truncar (curtail, truncate), estropiar (cripple, maim, murder), decepar (hew, hew down), aleijar (lame, maim). (various references)

Romanian		mutila (cripple, emasculate, maim, mangle), masacra (butcher, massacre, murder, slaughter, spoil), schilodi (cripple, disable, lame, maim, mangle, maul), deforma (contort, deface, deform, disfigure, distort, mangle, twist). (various references)

Russian		увечить (maim), искажать (contort, defeature, deprave, distort, distort with, falsify, garble, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, skew, strain, vitiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		unakaziti (deform, disfeature, disfigure), sakatiti (cripple, maim), osakatiti (lame, maim, stultify). (various references)

Spanish		mutilar (cripple, deface, disable, emasculate, garble, maim, mangle). (various references)

Swedish		stympa (clip, curtail, garble, hack, maim, truncate), lemlästa (cripple, maim, mutilitate). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้ (แขนขา) ใช้การไม่ไ�"้, ตั�"ทอนจนเสียความ. (various references)

Turkish		sakatlamak (cripple, disable, flaw, hamstring, injure, lame, maim, Mar, nobble), kesip sakat bırakmak, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Ukrainian		калічити (beat up, cripple, hamstring, lame, maim), покалічений (disabled), перекручувати (bedevil, contort, deform, disguise, distort, garble, kink, misconstrue, pervert, sophisticate, torture, travesty, warp, wrest, wring), перекручений (anamorphous, barbarous, corrupt, distorted, drawn, perverted, retorted, warped, wry). (various references)

Welsh		llurgunio (mangle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carnifico, discerpens, discerperetur, laniastis, praecido, trunco. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	sceard. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mutilate": mutilated, mutilates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mutilate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: autolite, martellato, Matiabe, matilate, Mattinata, Mitylene, mulitate, Murialdo, muriate, muricata, mustelae, Mutillidae, Mytilene, outillage, utilate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mutilate" (pronounced myuw"tulā't)
5	-t u l ā' t	distillate, titillate, ventilate.
4	-u l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, undulate, vacillate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ultimate.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: amulet, muleta, mutate, telium, ultima.
	-3 letters: atilt, email, ileum, latte, lutea, maile, matte, metal, miaul, telia, title, ulema, utile.
	-4 letters: alit, alme, alum, amie, emit, etui, ilea, item, lame, late, lati, lieu, lima, lime, lite, litu, lute, mail, male, malt, mate, matt, maul, maut, meal, meat, melt, meta, mile, milt, mite, mitt, mule.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: mutilated, mutilates, stimulate, ultimated, ultimates.
	+2 letters: multistage, multistate, stimulated, stimulates, ultimately.
	+3 letters: curtailment, matriculate, midlatitude, milquetoast, multicoated, multitasked, multivalent, mutualities, penultimate, restimulate, stimulative, tetrazolium, tolbutamide.
	+4 letters: curtailments, imputatively, instrumental, matriculated, matriculates, metallurgist, midlatitudes, milquetoasts, multifaceted, multilateral, multimegaton, multipartite, multitracked, multivalents, multivariate, mutabilities, restimulated, restimulates, simultaneity, tetrazoliums, tolbutamides, ultimateness, ultraleftism.
	+5 letters: antepenultima, documentalist, importunately, instrumentals, metallurgists, misarticulate, monumentality, multifilament, multimegatons, multimegawatt, multimetallic, multinucleate, multiparticle, multispectral, multistranded, multitalented, multiterminal, outmanipulate, overstimulate, penultimately, permutational, pneumatolytic, restimulating, restimulation, supermilitant, ultraleftisms, unmitigatedly, unsentimental.
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