The word "mutilate" is employed in literature with a striking versatility, functioning both in its literal and metaphorical senses. In works like Kant’s, it is used in a stark, literal manner to denote the physical harm or destruction of a human being [1], while in Bram Stoker’s Dracula the term similarly conveys the needless physical defilement of a body [2]. At the same time, authors such as Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein extend its usage metaphorically, describing the degradation of language—“mutilate the king's English” [3] or the physical damage to a book [4]—thus encapsulating the idea of spoiling or distorting an original form. William James and Henry Ernest Dudeney further broaden this conceptual field by suggesting that an overzealous presentation or transformation can “mutilate the facts” [5] or the material [6] itself, while Émile Durkheim and Pushkin apply the term in contexts that hint at emotional or cultural distortion [7][8]. This diverse application of the word mirrors its inherent capacity to capture both tangible acts of destruction and subtler forms of degradation.