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mutilar

Portuguese, verb/mu.t͡ʃiˈla(ʁ)/

mutilar is spelled M-U-T-I-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mutilar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mutilate (to physically harm as to impair use)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar um membro ou parte dele a”.

What does mutilar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to mutilate (to physically harm as to impair use)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. cortar um membro ou parte dele a 2. privar de um membro 3. remover muitas partes

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of mutilar

  • mutilo first-person present singular
  • mutilei first-person preterite singular
  • mutilado participle past
  • mutilares infinitive second-person singular
  • mutilarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • mutilardes infinitive plural second-person
  • mutilarem infinitive plural third-person
  • mutilando gerund
  • mutilados masculine participle past
  • mutilada feminine participle past
  • mutiladas feminine participle past
  • mutilas indicative present second-person
  • mutila indicative present singular
  • mutilamos first-person indicative plural
  • mutilais indicative plural present
  • mutilam indicative plural present
  • mutilava first-person imperfect indicative
  • mutilavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce mutilar?

  • Brazil /mu.t͡ʃiˈla(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [mu.t͡ʃiˈla(h)]
  • Portugal /mu.ti.ˈlaɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to mutilar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is mutilar in Portuguese?

mutilar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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