The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mutilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mutilating.]
To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.
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To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho.
--Addison.Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mutilate English)
Usage examples of "mutilating".
As far as the intestines are concerned, there was so much mutilation that you could practically connect any historical mutilating torture with it and not be too far off.
There's another statute dealing with mutilating a corpse, and it's the only one Parrish can stick on me.
It's called mutilating a corpse, should you care to check the criminal code.
You can't prosecute me for mutilating a corpse, because you don't know who got mutilated.
I'll walk into a courtroom, face the Judge, listen to your routine, and I'll plead guilty to the felony charge of mutilating the corpse.
The lust murder is unique and is distinguished from the sadistic homicide by the involvement of a mutilating attack or displacement of the breasts, rectum, or genitals.
I thought the voice on the tape was pretty articulate and sophisticated for someone who got his ultimate satisfaction out of life from killing and mutilating prostitutes, so I said, “Based on the crime scenes you’ve described and this audiotape I heard back in the States, that’s not the Ripper.
George Bagster Phillips, showed what had to be the final escalation of the killer’s homicidal mutilating frenzy.
I cannot conceive of the killer, particularly the prince, planning the crimes to the point of venturing into a foreign neighborhood with great risk of being recognized with the intended purpose of mutilating women he’d never met.
They had gone on television and accused me of religious persecution and of mutilating their child's body.
I scrubbed stubborn blood with a big soft sponge, and her wounds seemed even more gaping and mutilating when her taut brown skin was clean.
The door is unlocked the entire time he is mutilating her body in the bedroom.
This is all adding up to something more than a man who killed his brother, took his place on a ship bound for Richmondall to get out of Paris because his nasty little habit of murdering and mutilating women was becoming increasingly inconvenient to his powerful criminal family.
Her killer ripped and cut and hacked into her body, laying it wide open, mutilating her genitalia to a pulp.
We can't assume the Ripper's victims felt no pain and were already unconscious when he began mutilating them.