Attack
Mutilate
Mutilate verb - To cause severe or permanent injury to.
Attack and mutilate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attack" instead a verb "Mutilate".
Nearby Words: mutilation, mutilating
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Eventually, he gets her captured and brainwashed, using her to attack and mutilate her teammate Angel.
Source: The Dog Bites Back / Comic Books -
You don't get much scarier than someone like him wielding a machete and threatening to mutilate Le Chiffre's girlfriend after Le Chiffre loses their money to a foiled terrorist attack.
Source: Scary Black Man -
While the Crossed will mutilate themselves and kill each other out of boredom, they specifically will attack survivors as they cannot get any satisfaction at torturing fellow infected as they will laugh it off whereas seeing a survivor in extreme pain is what they truly seek.
Source: Technically Living Zombie
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