mutilate 的定义
mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing.
- to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- to deprive of a limb or other essential part.
mutilate 近义词
maim, damage
更多mutilate例句
- After the man’s body was recovered, his mutilated left leg probably detached and was placed on his chest when he was buried, the researchers say.
- The thing with translators is that you have to cut off the oratory, mutilate the ideas to give them time to do their work.
- False rumors swirled that Hughes had mutilated Pearl Farlow’s throat and breasts, sending the mob into a murderous rage.
- Their world, like Paul’s, was full of monsters determined to abuse, kidnap and mutilate kids.
- Prisoners there became severely depressed: some began to compulsively mutilate themselves; others attempted suicide.
- With cynical cruelty, he set himself to insult, to undermine, to mutilate it.
- It would not mutilate and disfigure the body, for it is a sacred temple, to be made beautiful and attractive.
- You mutilate my brain with your clumsy pincers—you put your claws into my thoughts and tear them to pieces!
- Not only does the censorship mutilate literary works, but it often suffocates the inspiration of the author.
- This dispatch, too, the House of Commons took care to mutilate before sending it to the press.