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mutilative

mutilative adjective: causing or relating to mutilation.

Adjective

mutilative (not comparable)

  1. Causing or relating to mutilation.
    • The patient engaged in self-mutilative behaviours.

Origin of mutilative

From mutilate + -ive.

Questions about mutilative

What does mutilative mean?
Mutilative means causing or relating to mutilation.
What part of speech is mutilative?
Mutilative is an adjective.

Words near mutilative in the dictionary

  1. mutilates
  2. mutilateth
  3. mutilating
  4. mutilation
  5. mutilations
  6. mutilative
  7. mutilator
  8. mutilators
  9. mutilatory
  10. mutiliate
  11. mutilid

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