mutilate
verb
[ ˈmjuːtɪleɪt ]
• inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.
• "most of the prisoners had been mutilated"
Similar:
mangle,
maim,
disfigure,
cut to pieces,
cut up,
hack up,
butcher,
dismember,
tear limb from limb,
tear apart,
lacerate,
Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin mutilat- ‘maimed, mutilated, lopped off’, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus ‘maimed’.
