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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutilate.

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Examples

  • Then, as others have mutilated its sense, the tramp mutilates its form, and ho-boy becomes exultantly hobo.

    Local Color 2010

  • THAT MALE CIRCUMCISION mutilates male sexual pleasure is a fact that has been thoroughly documented.

    The First Cut | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Asia and Zen both make serious and irrevocable physical alterations to themselves, but their motives are strikingly different: Zen mutilates himself out of loyalty and love for others, whereas Asia mutilates himself solely for power and personal gain.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Asia and Zen both make serious and irrevocable physical alterations to themselves, but their motives are strikingly different: Zen mutilates himself out of loyalty and love for others, whereas Asia mutilates himself solely for power and personal gain.

    Kung Fu Night! Double Feature: The Swordsman II and Chocolate 2009

  • It mutilates a film as surely as do pan-and-scan prints.

    "But I could sleep with you there. I could sleep with you there." greygirlbeast 2009

  • First, we have Zen (Shun Lau), the honorable and loyal servant of Master Wu, who, after Wu goes missing, willingly mutilates his own face in order to integrate into the ranks of Asia's hired Japanese thugs.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • The State of Oklahoma imposes a fine up to $3,000 and a jail term up to three years for anyone who contemptuously or maliciously burns, mutilates, defaces or tramples upon the U.S. flag.

    barn burning intertribal 2010

  • It mutilates me, and darkly my essence drips to the barren land.

    Writing: Unfathomable Poetry « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • The State of Oklahoma imposes a fine up to $3,000 and a jail term up to three years for anyone who contemptuously or maliciously burns, mutilates, defaces or tramples upon the U.S. flag.

    intertribal: barn burning intertribal 2010

  • First, we have Zen (Shun Lau), the honorable and loyal servant of Master Wu, who, after Wu goes missing, willingly mutilates his own face in order to integrate into the ranks of Asia's hired Japanese thugs.

    Kung Fu Night! Double Feature: The Swordsman II and Chocolate 2009

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