1. (

• mutilation

) an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part ;

2. (

• defacement ,
• disfigurement ,
• disfiguration ,
• mutilation

) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape" ;