mutilate

Cassandra Pybus says there is no doubt that Crowther did mutilate Lanne, citing letters he wrote.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

“We have concluded on the basis of present evidence that Nosenko was dispatched to the West to mutilate counterintelligence leads which had been revealed by Golitsyn,” Angleton said.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023

It would stiffen the maximum penalties for people who willfully steal, destroy, conceal, mutilate or alter such records from $1,000 and one year in prison to $10,000 and two years in prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

One particular law makes it a felony for someone in possession of government records to willfully mutilate, obliterate or destroy them.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

I don’t know, I guess I always thought I’d turn out okay, no matter how badly my many schools tried to mutilate me.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

The provision covers “whoever corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates or conceals a record, document or other object...or otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

There was no camaraderie because this system mutilates your emotions - you feel nothing.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2017

Especially if the Common App mutilates the formatting on applicant essays and you say there’s no way to fix it.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2013

Editors, he predicted, would reject the concept “because it mutilates the magazine.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010

He may have begun his work with the purpose of attacking a mischievous and superstitious system that mutilates human life, but he certainly continued it because he became interested in his creations.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

Aristotle recognized that we take pleasure in viewing fictional representations of tragedies, suffering and mutilated corpses that would repulse us if we confronted them in reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and even turn less-charismatic animals like cicadas into horrifyingly mutilated zombies.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024

Bobrisky, whose real name is Idris Okuneye, allegedly abused and mutilated banknotes during a film premiere in Lagos, the authorities told the BBC.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Puli was standing some distance away; from somewhere he had produced a begging bowl which he held in the crook of his elbow, while he displayed his mutilated hands to the passers-by.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Conservationists say they hate mutilating these anmals, whose magnificent horns are integral to their being.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has warned, however, against "mutilating" the project in a letter to Rishi Sunak.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

“Moon Knight” is not the first time that an MCU title has been called out for mutilating an Asian language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

Both testicles were eventually removed – he called it “the mutilating surgery”.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

Four of the men went to prison for six months for knowingly destroying or mutilating their cards.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge