mutilates
Cuts up badly
Mutilates is the third-person singular of mutilate, meaning to inflict serious damage on a body by cutting, tearing, or destroying parts of it: The killer mutilated the corpse.
The term extends to disfiguring objects or abstractly ruining something: The censors mutilated the manuscript.
Mutilation implies violence or destruction that leaves something incomplete or unrecognizable.
Cuts off limbs
- maimsInjures permanently
- disfiguresSpoils outward form
- seversCuts completely through
- amputatesSurgically removes limb
mangles · butchers · hacks · slashes · tears · cuts · lacerates · wounds
Inflicts lasting psychological damage
- damagesCompensation for injury
- scarsHealed wound tissue
- woundsBodily tissue damage
- hurtsCauses physical distress
devastates · destroys · breaks · harms · injures · bruises · cripples · torments
Alters for improvement
- censorsThose who suppress content
- redactsRemoves sensitive content
- expurgatesRemoves offensive content
- corruptsCauses moral decline
alters · distorts · butchers · mangles · abridges · cuts · excises · deletes
Damages surface appearance
- vandalizesWillfully damages property
- desecratesViolates something sacred
- damagesCompensation for injury
- destroysCauses complete ruin
ruins · mars · disfigures · alters · tampers · scratches · slashes · tears
dismembers
Cuts off limbs
- maimsInjures permanently
- disfiguresSpoils outward form
- seversCuts completely through
amputates · mangles · butchers · hacks · slashes · tears · cuts · lacerates · wounds · scars
traumatizes
Inflicts lasting psychological damage
hurts · devastates · destroys · breaks · harms · injures · bruises · cripples · torments · agonizes
edits
Alters for improvement
- censorsThose who suppress content
- redactsRemoves sensitive content
- expurgatesRemoves offensive content
corrupts · alters · distorts · butchers · mangles · abridges · cuts · excises · deletes · omits
defaces
Damages surface appearance
- vandalizesWillfully damages property
- desecratesViolates something sacred
- damagesCompensation for injury
destroys · ruins · mars · disfigures · alters · tampers · scratches · slashes · tears · smashes
mutilatesrestores
Returns to previous state
heals · repairs · mends · reconstructs · regenerates
mutilatesbeautifies
Makes more attractive
adorns · embellishes · enhances · perfects · glorifies
- female genital mutilationCutting of girls' genitals
- cattle mutilationUnexplained surgical animal deaths
- genital mutilationCutting of intimate organs