mutilating

Verb

mutilate (third-person singular simple present mutilates, present participle mutilating, simple past and past participle mutilated)

1. To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
   • mutilated currency
2. To destroy beyond recognition.
3. (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
   • For two reasons then it is right to be content with that which happens to thee; the one, because it was done for thee and prescribed for thee, and in a manner had reference to thee, originally from the most ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the other, because even that which comes severally...1862, George Long (translation of Marcus Aurelius), Meditations, Book V

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