Synonyms of the word

mutilate

• v. To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such…
• v. To destroy beyond recognition.
• v. (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
• adj. (obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
• adj. (zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.

damage

• n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
• n. (slang) Cost or expense.
• v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

distort

• v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
• v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
• adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

falsify

• v. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
• v. (transitive) To misrepresent.
• v. (transitive) To prove to be false.
• v. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
• v. (transitive, finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

garble

• v. (obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts,…
• v. To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.
• v. To make false by mutilation or addition.
• n. Confused or unintelligible speech.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
• n. (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.

maim

• v. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

mangle

• v. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier…
• n. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
• n. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
• n. mangrove (tree).

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

murder

• n. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
• n. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
• n. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets…
• n. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
• n. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
• v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
• v. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
• v. To botch or mangle.
• v. (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
• v. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

warp

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally.
• n. (countable) A distortion.
• n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
• n. (figuratively) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
• n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for…
• n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such…
• n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
• n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced…
• n. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure:…
• v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figuratively) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
• v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
• v. To move.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or…
• v. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.