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The Merriam-Webster offers these meanings:

1: to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect  

2: to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of : cripple 

Also, I think that looking at the Origin of mutilate according to the Oxford Dictionary is something that needs to be done:

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin mutilat- maimed, mutilated, lopped off , from the verb mutilare, from mutilus maimed.