Found 2 items, similar to Mutilate.
English → English (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]
English → English (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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. [1913 Webster] Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A cetacean, or a sirenian. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. [1913 Webster] Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]