| 单词 | mutilated |
| 释义 | mutilated (once / 1736 pages) adj If you describe something as mutilated, it has been disfigured or maimed. After a disaster, it can sometimes be hard to identify the mutilated bodies. The adjective mutilated is a gory word that's good for describing maimed or injured bodies. When something's mutilated, it's often harmed in such a way that it's no longer recognizable. A mutilated face might be cut so badly that you can't identify who it belongs to, and a mutilated arm could be crushed so terribly that it no longer looks like an arm. The Latin root mutilare literally means "with a part cut off." WORD FAMILYmutilated: unmutilated+/mutilate: mutilated, mutilates, mutilating, mutilation, mutilator/mutilation: mutilations/mutilator: mutilators USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s “Van Gogh’s Ear,” and its focus is the night in December 1888 when Vincent van Gogh apparently mutilated himself. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) Photographs that later circulated online showed the mutilated body of what appeared to be the same man being dragged along a street. New York Times(Dec 06, 2016) India had earlier vowed to avenge the killing of three soldiers, one of whose bodies it said had been mutilated. BBC(Nov 29, 2016) adj having a part of the body crippled or disabled Syn maimed unfit not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition |
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