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Found 2 items, similar to Mutilate.

Dictionary: dictd_www.dict.org_gcide
Definition: Mutilate

Mutilate \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.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of
legs, as a cetacean.
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A cetacean, or a sirenian.
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Mutilate \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 disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the
body, a statue, etc.
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2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render
imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
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Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is
none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of
Sappho. --Addison.
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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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Dictionary: WordNet
Definition: mutilate

mutilate
v 1: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
[syn: mangle, cut up]
2: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered
the French language" [syn: mangle, murder]
3: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mar]