Mutilation or maiming is an act of physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body, sometimes causing death.
Read more about Mutilation: Usage, Punishment, Mutilation As Human Punishment
Famous quotes containing the word mutilation:
“Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country—it had all been done in our name.... The French city ... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.”
—James Fenton (b. 1949)