Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mutilated"
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)
mutilated
adj 1: badly injured, perhaps with amputation; "the maimed right
hand twisted and clutched"- P.B.Kyne; "mutilated
victims of the rocket attack" [syn: {maimed}]
2: having a part of the body crippled or disabled [syn: {maimed}]
3: (of compositions e.g.) "a mutilated text" [syn: {mangled}]
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