It may be so used, because amputation certainly is a form of mutilation. However, mutilate necessarily expresses a negative emotion, while amputate does not.
The word of the day is amputate.
A sentence for the word mutilate might include: "Your terrible singing voice is going to mutilate that pretty song." Mutilate is defined as damage or destroy.
Yes doctor, it looks like we will have to amputate.
His leg was so badly damaged that the surgeon decided to amputate it.
Perhaps "amputate".
It means that your arms or legs or parts of them have been removed either by a doctor or by a accident.
Mutilate is a word that means to cause injury due to violence. A good sentence would be, his intent was to mutilate the boys arm.
amputate
try maim
Attach. Amputate means cutting off, so the antonym can be attached. While preparing for GRE one must keep in the mind that anything that's near to the opposite to this can be the possible antonym of amputate. Rachelle- tutor, examville.com
synonymize
Amputate. Truncate.