Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is cutting off or causing injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.

What do you mean by mutilate?

transitive verb. 1 : to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect the child mutilated the book with his scissors a painting mutilated by vandals. 2 : to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of : cripple His arm was mutilated in the accident.

What kind of word is mutilation?

What type of word is 'mutilation'? Mutilation is a noun - Word Type.