Definitions for mutilates

mutilates mu·ti·late

Spelling: [myoot-l-eyt]
IPA: /ˈmyut lˌeɪt/

Mutilates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 558 anagrams from letters in mutilates (aeilmsttu).

Definitions for mutilates

verb (used with object)

  1. to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts:
  2. to deprive (a person or animal) of a limb or other essential part.

Origin of mutilates

1525-35; Latin mutilātus (past participle of mutilāre to cut off, maim), equivalent to mutil(us) maimed, mutilated + -ātus -ate1

Examples for mutilates

Care should be taken not to mutilate trees in taking these specimens.

The passage is too long to quote, and it would be unfair to mutilate it.

Do not cut off heads, ears, or noses, or mutilate in any way.

What if she maim and mutilate all the animals in her Noah's Ark?

But that herd belongs to the lawyer, and I've taught him, now, to mutilate our horses.

But if she could not bear the idea of becoming ugly, she could at least mutilate herself.

If we wrong it, and despise it, we mutilate the divine in ourselves.

With cynical cruelty, he set himself to insult, to undermine, to mutilate it.

Do not stir them and mutilate them with a spoon, but turn them into a colander and drain.

Thus man's hand permits him to improve or mutilate his body.

Word Value for mutilates
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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