mutilated
Badly cut up
Mutilated describes something that has been severely damaged, disfigured, or had parts violently removed.
Bodies are mutilated in war or by predators.
Documents are mutilated when portions are torn away or defaced.
The word implies damage that destroys integrity or wholeness: The mutilated corpse was barely recognizable.
A mutilated text has passages rendered illegible or missing entirely.
Spoiled in appearance
- maimedPermanently injured or disfigured
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
- severedCut off completely
- mangledSeverely disfigured or ruined
amputated · scarred · wounded · lacerated · torn · hacked · slashed · butchered
Suppressed from publication
- redactedOfficially removed from view
- editedAltered for improvement
- alteredChanged from before
- corruptedMade impure or dishonest
garbled · truncated · bowdlerized · expurgated · defaced · vandalized · damaged · incomplete
disfigured
Spoiled in appearance
- maimedPermanently injured or disfigured
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
- severedCut off completely
mangled · amputated · scarred · wounded · lacerated · torn · hacked · slashed · butchered · gashed
censored
Suppressed from publication
corrupted · garbled · truncated · bowdlerized · expurgated · defaced · vandalized · damaged · incomplete · fragmented
vandalized
Willfully damaged or destroyed
desecrated · ruined · slashed · graffitied · smashed · torn · shredded · gouged · hammered · chiseled
defaced
Damaged the appearance of
- tornPulled into pieces
- damagedMade worse by injury
- counterfeitFraudulent imitation
worthless · invalid · shredded · burned · altered · tampered · unspendable · rejected · partial · ripped
- deformitiesdeformed, disfigured, misshapen, distorted, twisted
- damageddamaged, broken, wrecked, ruined, destroyed
- unrecognizabledisguised, unrecognizable, blurred, camouflaged, masked
mutilatedintact
Not damaged or altered
whole · undamaged · unmutilated · unharmed · uninjured
mutilatedbeautified
Made more attractive
beautiful · flawless · immaculate · perfect · adorned
- female genital mutilationCutting of girls' genitals
- cattle mutilationUnexplained surgical animal deaths
- genital mutilationCutting of intimate organs