"mutilating" in the verb sense
1. mutilate, mangle, cut up
destroy or injure severely
"The madman mutilates art work"
2. mangle, mutilate, murder
alter so as to make unrecognizable
"The tourists murdered the French language"
3. mutilate, mar
destroy or injure severely
"mutilated bodies"
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