What is another word for mutilate ?

be a blot on the landscape

To inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on

vandalize^US

traumatize^US

vandalise^UK

traumatise^UK

hospitalize^US

hospitalise^UK

pummelled^UK

pummel^US

saber^US

sabre^UK

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“How is it right to encourage people to mutilate their bodies?”

Verb

To inflict serious damage on

vandalise^UK

vandalize^US

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“It is certainly ironic that Mullen loved nature so much that he was prepared to mutilate the landscape in the process of recording its beauty.”

Verb

beat the living daylights out of

To strike or hit repeatedly

pummelled^UK

pummel^US

belabour^UK

belabor^US

give someone a hiding

give someone a good hiding

knock into the middle of next week

brutalize^US

brutalise^UK

give someone a drubbing

give someone a beating

warm someone's seat

dust someone's britches

give someone a good beating

give someone a good drubbing

give someone a hot bottom

contact

put over one's knee

make someone feel the back of one's hand

knock someone's lights out

beat someone's brains out

jump down one's throat

come into collision with

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Verb

terminate with extreme prejudice

To kill, especially on a large scale

neutralize^US

neutralise^UK

give someone the works

vaporize^US

vaporise^UK

send to the gas chambers

stamp out

put paid to

gun down

wipe from the face of the earth

garrotte^UK

garrote^US

blow someone's brains out

wipe off the face of the earth

administer the coup de grâce

give the coup de grâce

drive to the wall

move in for the kill

axe^UK

ax^US

thin out the population of

reduce the numbers of

knock something on the head

put someone out of their misery

sterilise^UK

sterilize^US

bowdlerize^US

send to the gas chamber

put before a firing squad

send to the gibbet

string up

send to the electric chair

block out

wipe off face of earth

blow to bits

blow sky-high

destroy root and branch

bowdlerise^UK

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Verb

give a false impression of

To alter something from its true state, typically to deceive

colour^UK

color^US

give a false account of

mold^US

mould^UK

misattribute

quote

dramatize^US

put words in someone's mouth

give a false picture of

romanticise^UK

dramatise^UK

romanticize^US

exert an influence on

make a mountain out of a molehill

emphasize^US

emphasise^UK

make a federal case of

go to extremes

blow out of proportion

stretch the truth

blow up out of all proportion

blow up

fill out

make a production out of

make partial

weigh

whitewash

blow up out of proportion

put the wrong slant on

make a big thing out of

interlard

draw the long bow

explicate

make a mountain out of

exaggerate information

make too much of something

lay it on with a trowel

blow something out of all proportion

lay it on with a shovel

lay it on thick about

big up

make a drama out of a crisis

lay it on with a trowel about

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Verb

To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf

brutalize^US

brutalise^UK

Verb

To remove the testicles of an animal or person

sterilise^UK

sterilize^US

remove the testicles of

pasteurize^US

sanitize^US

pasteurise^UK

sanitise^UK

operate on

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Verb

put a spanner in the works

To ruin something, especially through incompetence

make a dog's dinner of

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Verb

To cause significant damage or destruction to