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MUTILATE
Definition of MUTILATE
verb
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MUTILATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 117, 14 September 2026.
Built from these letters
MUTILATE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEILMTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MUTILA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MUTILATE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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