Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mutilate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of
legs, as a cetacean.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A cetacean, or a sirenian.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mutilate
v 1: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
[syn: {mangle}, {disfigure}, {cut up}]
2: "The tourists murdered the French language" [syn: {mangle},
{murder}]
3: destroy, as of a limb [syn: {mar}]
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