VERB | change | mutilate, mangle, cut up | destroy or injure severely |
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change | mutilate, mangle, murder | alter so as to make unrecognizable | |
body | mutilate, mar | destroy or injure severely |
Sounds | myuw'tahley.t | |
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Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... |
Meaning | Destroy or injure severely. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Example | "The madman mutilates art work" | |
Synonyms | mangle, cut up | |
Broader | damage | inflict damage / damage upon |
Spanish | desfigurar, desgarrar, destrozar, mutilar | |
Catalan | capolar, destrossar, esquinçar, estripar, mutilar | |
Nouns | mutilation | an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part |
mutilator | a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples |
Meaning | alter so as to make unrecognizable. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | mangle, murder | |
Broader | falsify, distort, garble, warp | make false by mutilation or addition |
Spanish | asesinar, mutilar |
Meaning | Destroy or injure severely. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
Example | "mutilated bodies" | |
Synonym | mar | |
Entailed by | maul, mangle | injure badly by beating |
Narrower | gouge, force out | Force with the thumb |
Broader | maim | injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation |
Spanish | mutilar | |
Catalan | mutilar | |
Nouns | mutilation | an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part |
mutilator | a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples |
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