Read full poem →Unite them in your manhood each and all,
Nor mutilate the perfectness of life.
You can remember, you can also hope;
Dictionary Entry
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
In a Sentence
“The vandals mutilated the statue by chipping away large pieces of its head.”
Origin
Late Middle English, from Latin mutilare ‘to cut off’, from mutilus ‘mutilated’.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “mutilate”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It was the design of Senator Lodge, from the
outset, to mutilate the Treaty and to frustrate
the purposes of the Administration. And yet