About The Word Mutilate
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Mutilate
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mutilate: cut up | mangle | mar | murder Related Terms | Find terms related to Mutilate: abrade | abscind | alter | amputate | annihilate | ban | bar | bark | blemish | bloody | bob | break | burn | butcher | castrate | chafe | change | check | chip | claw | clip | crack | craze | cripple | crop | cull | cut | cut away | cut off | cut out | damage | deface | defoliate | deform | denude | desexualize | destroy | disable | disfigure | dismember | disproportion | dock | draw and quarter | eliminate | enucleate | eradicate | except | excise | exclude | extinguish | extirpate | fix | flay | fracture | fray | frazzle | fret | gall | gash | geld | hurt | incise | injure | isolate | knock off | lacerate | lame | lop | maim | make mincemeat of | mangle | mar | maul | mayhem | misshape | neuter | nip | pare | peel | pick out | pick to pieces | pierce | prune | pull apart | puncture | rend | rip | rip off | root out | ruin | rule out | run | rupture | savage | scald | scorch | scotch | scrape | scratch | scuff | set apart | set aside | shave | shear | shred | skin | slash | slit | spoil | sprain | stab | stamp out | stick | strain | strike off | strip | strip off | take apart | take off | take out | tear | tear apart | tear off | tear to pieces | tear to tatters | traumatize | truncate | unsex | vandalize | wipe out | wound | wrench See Also | damage | deface | distort | falsify | force out | garble | gouge | maim | warp Mutilate In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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