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When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
River Phoenix

Meaning of "mutilate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MUTILATE

From Latin mutilāre to cut off; related to mutilus maimed.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MUTILATE

mutilate  [ˈmjuːtɪˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUTILATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mutilate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mutilate in English.

WHAT DOES MUTILATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

mutilate

Mutilation

Mutilation or maiming is an act of physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body, sometimes causing death.

Definition of mutilate in the English dictionary

The definition of mutilate in the dictionary is to deprive of a limb, essential part, etc; maim; dismember. Other definition of mutilate is to mar, expurgate, or damage.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MUTILATE

PRESENT

Present
I mutilate
you mutilate
he/she/it mutilates
we mutilate
you mutilate
they mutilate
Present continuous
I am mutilating
you are mutilating
he/she/it is mutilating
we are mutilating
you are mutilating
they are mutilating
Present perfect
I have mutilated
you have mutilated
he/she/it has mutilated
we have mutilated
you have mutilated
they have mutilated
Present perfect continuous
I have been mutilating
you have been mutilating
he/she/it has been mutilating
we have been mutilating
you have been mutilating
they have been mutilating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I mutilated
you mutilated
he/she/it mutilated
we mutilated
you mutilated
they mutilated
Past continuous
I was mutilating
you were mutilating
he/she/it was mutilating
we were mutilating
you were mutilating
they were mutilating
Past perfect
I had mutilated
you had mutilated
he/she/it had mutilated
we had mutilated
you had mutilated
they had mutilated
Past perfect continuous
I had been mutilating
you had been mutilating
he/she/it had been mutilating
we had been mutilating
you had been mutilating
they had been mutilating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will mutilate
you will mutilate
he/she/it will mutilate
we will mutilate
you will mutilate
they will mutilate
Future continuous
I will be mutilating
you will be mutilating
he/she/it will be mutilating
we will be mutilating
you will be mutilating
they will be mutilating
Future perfect
I will have mutilated
you will have mutilated
he/she/it will have mutilated
we will have mutilated
you will have mutilated
they will have mutilated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been mutilating
you will have been mutilating
he/she/it will have been mutilating
we will have been mutilating
you will have been mutilating
they will have been mutilating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would mutilate
you would mutilate
he/she/it would mutilate
we would mutilate
you would mutilate
they would mutilate
Conditional continuous
I would be mutilating
you would be mutilating
he/she/it would be mutilating
we would be mutilating
you would be mutilating
they would be mutilating
Conditional perfect
I would have mutilate
you would have mutilate
he/she/it would have mutilate
we would have mutilate
you would have mutilate
they would have mutilate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been mutilating
you would have been mutilating
he/she/it would have been mutilating
we would have been mutilating
you would have been mutilating
they would have been mutilating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mutilate
we let´s mutilate
you mutilate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mutilate
Past participle
mutilated
Present Participle
mutilating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUTILATE


acetylate
əˈsɛtɪˌleɪt
acrylate
ˈækrɪˌleɪt
assimilate
əˈsɪmɪˌleɪt
butylate
ˈbjʊtɪˌleɪt
cantillate
ˈkæntɪˌleɪt
carboxylate
kɑːˈbɒksɪˌleɪt
constellate
ˈkɒnstɪˌleɪt
correlate
ˈkɒrɪˌleɪt
methacrylate
mɛθˈækrɪˌleɪt
methylate
ˈmɛθɪˌleɪt
oscillate
ˈɒsɪˌleɪt
phosphorylate
fɒsˈfɒrɪˌleɪt
postillate
ˈpɒstɪˌleɪt
salicylate
səˈlɪsɪˌleɪt
scintillate
ˈsɪntɪˌleɪt
scutellate
ˈskjuːtɪˌleɪt
tessellate
ˈtɛsɪˌleɪt
titillate
ˈtɪtɪˌleɪt
vacillate
ˈvæsɪˌleɪt
ventilate
ˈvɛntɪˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUTILATE

muteness
mutessarif
mutessarifat
mutha
muti
muticate
muticous
mutilation
mutilative
mutilator
Mutina
mutine
mutineer
mutinied
mutinies
mutinous
mutinously
mutinousness
mutiny
mutism

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUTILATE

annihilate
anthranilate
assibilate
bombilate
chocolate
deoppilate
depilate
dilate
disassimilate
dissimilate
epilate
horripilate
hyperventilate
invigilate
jubilate
obnubilate
oppilate
Pilate
pixilate
sibilate
strobilate

Synonyms and antonyms of mutilate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MUTILATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mutilate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of mutilate

Translation of «mutilate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUTILATE

Find out the translation of mutilate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mutilate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mutilate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

使伤残
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mutilar
570 millions of speakers

English

mutilate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पंगु बना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تشوه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

калечить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mutilar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছেদন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mutiler
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mutilate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verstümmeln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

手足などを切断する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불구로 만들다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mutilate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm hư hỏng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உருச்சிதை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फाटणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sakatlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mutilare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

okaleczyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

калічити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mutileze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακρωτηριάζουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vermink
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lemlästa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lemleste
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mutilate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUTILATE»

The term «mutilate» is regularly used and occupies the 93.057 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUTILATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mutilate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mutilate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mutilate

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «MUTILATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mutilate.
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Warren Beatty
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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River Phoenix
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUTILATE»

Discover the use of mutilate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mutilate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Do Not Fold, Spindle Or Mutilate
A fifty-eight-year-old spinstress meets with a violent end when she sends an application to a computer dating service
Doris Miles Disney, 1987
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English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
MUTILATE. may be busy and active, but not always pressing or incommodlousz it is always inconvenient, sometlrnes dangerous to go into a crowd; it is amusing to see the throng that is perpetually passing in the streets of the city: the swarm is ...
George Crabb, 1818
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
MUTILATE. MUTUAL. 575 What think you of the b ird' s enchanting art, Which whetner he attempts to warm the heart With fabled scenes, or charm the ear with rhyme, Breathes all pathetic, lovely, and sublime ? Jxxyns. MULTITUDE, CROWD  ...
George Crabb, 1846
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English synonymes, explained in alphabet. order
MUTILATE. MUTUAL. 57.". What think you of the bard** enchanting art. Which whetuer he atiempts.to warm the heart With fablfd scenes, or charm the ear with rhyme, breathes all pathetic, lovely, and sublime ? JKNrNS. MULTITUDE, CROWD ...
George Crabb, 1864
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Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy
One cannot extract a list of correlated pro-child. pro-female. or sex-positive traits from the cross-cultural literature. as cultures which mutilate the male genitalia do not significantly possess such characteristics. Male genital mutilations are found  ...
George C. Denniston, Marilyn Fayre Milos, 1997
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Cybercrime: An Overview of the Federal Computer Fraud and ...
It is a federal crime for anyone to unlawfully “conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy ... any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with ... any judicial or public officer of the United States.
Charles Doyle, 2011
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The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the ...
The latter writes that "the Jews went to war because they were forbidden to mutilate their genitals."' The Historia Augusta is extremely dubious as regards its date, its reliability and its purpose: many scholars have written about this from the end ...
Peter Schäfer, 2003
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Penetration Testing: Network Threat Testing
The following tools can be used to conduct a port-flooding attack: • Mutilate: Mutilate is mainly used to determine which ports on the target are open. This tool mainly targets TCP/IP networks. The following command is used to execute Mutilate: ...
EC-Council, 2010
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Primary Care Pediatrics
Children who self-mutilate often dress to camouflage their injuries. Because of the secrecy involved, primary care providers may only become aware of injuries if they require medical intervention or are discovered during an unrelated physical  ...
Carol Green-Hernandez, Joanne K. Singleton, Daniel Z. Aronzon, 2001
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Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
Or must you mutilate the willow before you can make it into cups and bowls? If you have to mutilate the willow to make it into cups and bowls, must you, then, also mutilate a man to make him moral? Surely it will be these words of yours men in ...
Keith James Holyoak, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUTILATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mutilate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Planned Parenthood Proves That 'Pro-Choicers' Hate Women
... sympathetic nature of women, yet progressivism desperately wishes to mutilate and desolate that compassionate disposition and instill in its ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
2
The Grim Story of Female Circumcision Told in Saving Safa …
... believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughters. «Books LIVE, Jul 15»
3
Rand Paul Turns to Chainsaw, Fire to Shred Tax Code
Mutilate it with a chainsaw? Sadly, viewers are forced to choose between the three methods, presenting them only with the illusion of free will ... «Vanity Fair, Jul 15»
4
Right-wing reporter Ben Shapiro files lawsuit against transgender …
If someone wants to mutilate their body, that's their choice. Cutting off your testicles is mutilation.” The altercation took place during a panel ... «LGBTQ Nation, Jul 15»
5
The RSS Is Right In Asking For A New Definition For 'Minority …
Are these the framers of the constitution? This is the real problem with an unchecked culture of amendments that mutilate the original document ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»
6
Nervy Supernatural Female Warriors | Onechanbara Z2 Chaos Review
But do you honestly need a reason to fight a metric shit ton of zombies and mutilate some monsters? Fuck no. The combat can stand well ... «Dual Pixels, Jul 15»
7
This Week's Free The Witcher 3 DLC Revealed
The fifteenth portion of free DLC for The Witcher 3, the New Finisher Animations will consist of several new ways for Geralt of Rivia to mutilate ... «XboxAchievements, Jul 15»
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Boston bomber's super-max jail is 'version of hell'
Some mutilate themselves with razors, shards of glass, sharpened chicken bones, writing utensils and whatever they can obtain. "A number ... «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jul 15»
9
Magazines in waiting rooms are not yours; don't mutilate them
“One of my greatest aggravations is, while browsing through a magazine in a waiting room, turning to a recipe or article, only to find it missing. «Hutchinson News, Jul 15»
10
If you don't think this is courage, then you're the one with a problem
... to invent a disease that doesn't exist, and the surgeons who use such spurious diagnoses to mutilate the bodies of the deluded,” he wrote. «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»

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