mutilate

Verb
  1. Destroy or injure severely (synset 200293434)
    "The madman mutilates art work"
    hypernym: damage - inflict damage upon
    synonym: cut up, mangle
  2. Alter so as to make unrecognizable (synset 200549830)
    "The tourists murdered the French language"
    hypernym: distort, falsify, garble, warp - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
    synonym: mangle, murder
  3. Destroy or injure severely (synset 200090460)
    "mutilated bodies"
    hypernym: maim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
    hyponym: force out, gouge - force with the thumb
    synonym: mar

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