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mutilated

mutilated \mutilated\ adj. 1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.

Syn: maimed.

3. damaged, often deliberately; -- of compositions; as, a mutilated text. Opposite of undamaged or intact.

Syn: mangled, mutilated.

Wiktionary
mutilated
  1. = (l/en: mutilate) v

  2. (en-past of: mutilate)

WordNet
mutilated
  1. adj. badly injured, perhaps with amputation; "the maimed right hand twisted and clutched"- P.B.Kyne; "mutilated victims of the rocket attack" [syn: maimed]

  2. having a part of the body crippled or disabled [syn: maimed]

  3. (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text" [syn: mangled]

Usage examples of "mutilated".

For months she had been kept alive through her hatred for the man who had shamed and mutilated herand now Netisten Maril was beyond even her revenge.

Marcus faint and saw him wake again, bravely trying to keep quiet while they mutilated him to the glory of their gods.

We lost none and released several prisoners, all women, who fell upon their dead captors with reviling and would have mutilated the bodies had we not interfered, although Myrdhinn ordered the heads to be cut off and brought with us.

Are you not better than the Mias, who regard an aged person as merely a body to be mutilated for the glory of a bloody god?

But she is no longer a woman of unearthly beautyonly a hideously mutilated wreck of humanity that hides from the sight of men.

Again he made a feint, which Kane, distracted by the mutilated mouth, again parried awkwardly.

She gazed entranced upon the girl of naked beauty in the painting, caressed her mutilated body.

He found some mutilated beggar-woman to pretend to be Efrel, and used that deception to form the nucleus for the rebellion he has secretly led all along.

They were beaten, raped, strangled, and mutilated, for no reason other than they were women.

Yet these poor people had all been caught and mutilated within a few meters of one another.

Then the darkness heaved in again, and the figure was not Ike but this other mutilated being, and Ali was more afraid than ever.

If the missing and mutilated women had been evil bitches to Maureen, Straussman had a motive.

He had been mutilated with some incredibly sharp instrument, and with an almost artistic precision.

That was unnatural, and it raised the hair on the back of his neck in a way that almost made him forget the blood and the mutilated bodies.

He left the office by the fire stairs, never bothering to look back at the mutilated body of Candice Wilcox.