noun. The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a necessary or important part, as a limb.

noun. The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

noun. The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.

noun. an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part

"While all along I sat with the dinky volksie steering wheel clamped in my white clenched fists, racking my brain for some county that had the word mutilation or perdition in it, up or down the little wooden hill to which etc."

defacement  

accidental injury  injury  

dismemberment  taking apart  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

abduction  beating  betrayal  butchery  carnage  

abrasion  abscission  amputation  annihilation  bankruptcy