mutilate

Other forms of mutilate

past tense

mutilated·

present participle

mutilating·

third person

mutilates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mutilate

What does mutilate mean?

mutilate means "destroy or injure severely". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mutilate?

mutilate has 3 syllables: mu-ti-late. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /ˈmjutəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for mutilate?

Close synonyms include mangle, cut up, mangle, murder, mar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutilate a common word?

mutilate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mutilate?

56 words rhyme with mutilate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.