mutilate

Plural: mutilates

Verb

Verb Forms: mutilated, mutilating, mutilates

To severely damage or disfigure by removing essential parts.
destroy or injure severely
- "The madman mutilates art work"
alter so as to make unrecognizable
destroy or injure severely
- "mutilated bodies"
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
To destroy beyond recognition.
To render imperfect or defective.

Adj

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, like a cetacean does.

Noun

Something that has been mutilated.

Examples

He worried his opponent might mutilate the board by opening up too many triple word scores.
mutilated currency

Origin / Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).

Synonyms

cut up, mangle, mar, murder, maim

Scrabble Score: 10

mutilate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
mutilate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mutilate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

mutilate: valid Words With Friends Word