Definitions for: Mutilate

[v] destroy, as of a limb
[v] destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
[v] alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"

Webster (1913) Definition: Mu"ti*late, a. [L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to
mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Mutton.]
1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
--Sir T. Browne.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of
legs, as a cetacean.

Mu"ti*late, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A cetacean, or a sirenian.

Mu"ti*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mutilated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Mutilating.]
1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim;
to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue,
etc.

2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render
imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is
none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of
Sappho. --Addison.

Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel
from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It
is used for giving intermittent movements.

Synonyms: cut up, mangle, mar, murder

See Also: damage, deface, distort, falsify, force out, garble, gouge, maim, warp

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