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Meanings of mutilate in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mar"
Examples for "mar"
1
Nervous intensity may not so much mar the effect of earnest debate.
2
The grandmother remained silent, not to mar the happiness of the child.
3
This would anticipate the author and mar the interest of his story.
4
For some time nothing occurred to mar the peace of the household.
5
I never make in such matters,-ormar if I can help it.
Usage of mutilate in English
1
Then again, thought Labaan, there's really no reason to mutilate the boy.
2
But the first thing that the theorist does is to mutilate letters.
3
Is it wisdom thus to mutilate these poor dwellers in your garden?
4
They said not to mutilate or you will be taken to jail.
5
By what right, and on what ground could they mutilate our country?
6
If we wrong it, and despise it, we mutilate the divine in ourselves.
7
These laws are absolute; to violate them is to wound, to mutilate society.
8
One cannot mutilate the etheric body, and it remains always intact.
9
Nor could even the tasteless Dionysius distort and mutilate them into mere prose.
10
Doubtless they slay men, doubtless even mutilate them, in mere malice.
11
I did not mutilate them, but they have become my destruction.
12
They would keep him for a slave, possibly mutilate him first.
13
Apropos, old Mr. Armour prevailed with him to mutilate that unlucky paper yesterday.
14
We cannot afford to retract, mutilate, or moderate our original determination.
15
He has to cut her fast, mutilate her with something close at hand.
16
With cynical cruelty, he set himself to insult, to undermine, to mutilate it.
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United Kingdom
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