verb [VN]
1 to damage sb's body very severely, especially by cutting or tearing off part of it:
The body had been badly mutilated.
2 to damage sth very badly:
Intruders slashed and mutilated several paintings.
mutilation noun [U,C]:
Thousands suffered death or mutilation in the bomb blast.
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