- mutilar
- v.to mutilate (persona, texto).El fuego cercenó su cara The fire mutilated his face.* * *mutilar► verbo transitivo1 (persona) to cripple; (objeto) to mutilate* * *VT1) [gen] to mutilate; (=lisiar) to cripple, disable2) [+ escultura, monumento] to vandalize, deface; [+ texto] to butcher, hack about* * *verbo transitivoa) <persona/pierna> to mutilate
quedó mutilado en el accidente — he was maimed as a result of the accident
b) <texto/película> to mutilate, bowdlerize; <árbol/estatua> to vandalize* * *= mutilate, maim.Ex. Prompt responses are required to bomb threats and reports of such dangerous or criminal conduct as sprinkling acid on chairs or clothing, mutilating books, tampering with the card catalog, or obscene behavior.Ex. There is nothing 'fair' about the arms trade and is is an insult to the children who are killed and maimed every day by land-mines deliberately designed to look like toys and butterflies.* * *verbo transitivoa) <persona/pierna> to mutilatequedó mutilado en el accidente — he was maimed as a result of the accident
b) <texto/película> to mutilate, bowdlerize; <árbol/estatua> to vandalize* * *= mutilate, maim.Ex: Prompt responses are required to bomb threats and reports of such dangerous or criminal conduct as sprinkling acid on chairs or clothing, mutilating books, tampering with the card catalog, or obscene behavior.
Ex: There is nothing 'fair' about the arms trade and is is an insult to the children who are killed and maimed every day by land-mines deliberately designed to look like toys and butterflies.* * *mutilar [A1 ]vt1 ‹persona/pierna› to mutilatelos cuerpos mutilados de las víctimas the mutilated bodies of the victimsquedó mutilado he was maimed2 ‹texto/película› to mutilate, bowdlerize, hack about; ‹árbol/estatua› to vandalize* * *
mutilar (conjugate mutilar) verbo transitivoa) ‹persona/pierna› to mutilate;◊ quedó mutilado en el accidente he was maimed as a result of the accidentb) ‹árbol/estatua› to vandalize
mutilar verbo transitivo to mutilate: este texto está mutilado, this text has been hacked about
'mutilar' also found in these entries:
English:
maim
- mutilate
* * *mutilar vt1. [persona] to mutilate2. [texto] to mutilate;[estatua] to vandalize* * *mutilarv/t mutilate* * *mutilar vt: to mutilate♦ mutilación nf
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.