Mutilate
Mutilate verb - To cause severe or permanent injury to.
Try and mutilate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Mutilate".
Nearby Words: mutilation, mutilating
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- When two of them try to tell their housemates two weeks later, they learn that they've been jinxed to speak random nonsense (such as learning knitting or how to mutilate kittens) instead.
Source: Exact Words / Fan Works -
Jaime advises Brienne to go into her happy place when they try to rape her, instead of fighting back; attacking them will only make them angrier and likely to mutilate or kill her.
Source: Happy Place
Cite this Source
Try and Mutilate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mutilate/try
Mutilate & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/mutilate/try>.
Try or Mutilate. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/mutilate/try.
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