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mutilate |
4 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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