/'mju:tɪleɪt; `mjutl,et/
v [Tn] injure, damage or disfigure (sb/sth) by breaking, tearing or cutting off a necessary part （折断、撕去、割掉某部分）使（某人[某事物]）损伤, 残缺, 外形损毁
*The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch. 侵略者把俘虏的四肢砍掉, 然後把残缺不全的躯体扔进沟里.
* A madman mutilated the painting by cutting holes in it. 有个疯子破坏了那幅画, 在上面捅了许多窟窿.
* (fig 比喻) The editor mutilated my text by removing whole paragraphs from it. 那编辑把我的文稿整段整段删掉, 弄得面目全非.

v [T]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin;Origin: , past participle of mutilare, from mutilus 'mutilated']
to severely and violently damage someone's body, especially by cutting or removing part of it
　The prisoners had been tortured and mutilated.
　extra protection for mental patients who might mutilate themselves
to damage or change something so much that it is completely spoiled
　The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
>mutilation [,mjuːtɪ'leɪʃən/