Mutilate

['mjuːtɪleɪt] or ['mjʊtl'et]

Definition

(verb.) destroy or injure severely; 'mutilated bodies'.

(verb.) destroy or injure severely; 'The madman mutilates art work'.

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Definition

(a.) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

(a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

(n.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.

Editor: Seth

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Disfigure, maim, cripple.

Edited by Kathleen

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See MAIM]

SYN:Intercede, interpose,[See INTERPOSE]

Editor: Mervin

Definition

v.t. to maim: to cut off: to remove a material part of.—ns. Mutilā′tion act of mutilating: deprivation of a limb or essential part; Mū′tilator one who mutilates.

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