mutilate

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The traditional struggle between Wrong and Right is largely foreign to Poe's protagonists - they will murder and mutilate, and they will do it because they are perverse.

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  1. transitive verb To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
  2. transitive verb To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at batter1.
  3. transitive verb To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.

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  • He is not to mutilate or to alter, but to take what he gets and be thankful The writers to select their own subjects. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
  • Or you're like Howard ... and you hope that if you self-mutilate long enough someone like me will come along and rehabilitate you He took to rubbing his face again. —  Disordered Minds
  • I say briefly, by the way, with no little agony, having had to self-mutilate my column to make it fit within the constraints of the printed page. —  The Pour
  • Your nonsense flies on the face ... albert levy: You don't solve anyone's mental problems and depression by allowing someone to mutilate or amputate their sexual organs. —  Truth Wins Out » Blog
  • The traditional struggle between Wrong and Right is largely foreign to Poe's protagonists - they will murder and mutilate, and they will do it because they are perverse. —  Blog updates
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mutilate:   mutilating ·  mutilated ·  mutilates
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  1. Latin mutilāre, mutilāt-, from mutilus, maimed.

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  1. from Latin mutilatus, past participle of mutilare (later Italian mutilare = Spanish Portuguese mutilar = French mutiler), maim, from mutilus, maimed; cf. Greek μίτνλος, μύτιλος, curtailed.
  2. = French mutilé = Portuguese mutilado = Italian mutilato, from Latin mutilatus, past participle of mutilare: see mutilate, v.
 

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/ˈmjutɪleɪt/
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