All mutilate synonyms
mu·ti·late
M m verb mutilate
- deface — If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- amputate — To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
- distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- disable — make not work
- ravage — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- dismember — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- lame — an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
- scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
- batter — If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- weaken — to make weak or weaker.
- cut up — If you cut something up, you cut it into several pieces.
- mess up — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- maim — to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
noun mutilate
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- use up — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wrecker — a person or thing that wrecks.
- ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.