[with obj.](一般作 be mutilated)inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on (以暴力)严重伤害(或使残废);使(肢体)残缺不全 Brian's body was badly mutilated. 布赖恩的身体受到严重伤害。 [as adj. mutilated]mutilated bodies. 残缺不全的尸体。 ■inflict serious damage on 严重损坏 the 14th-century church had been partly mutilated in the 18th century. 这座建于14世纪的教堂在18世纪时部分遭到严重破坏。
派生 mutilation noun mutilator noun 语源
early 16th cent.: from Latin mutilat- 'maimed, mutilated, lopped off', from the verb mutilare, from mutilus 'maimed'