'Mutilate' definitions:

Definition of 'mutilate'

(from WordNet)
verb
Destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work" [syn: mutilate, mangle, cut up]
verb
Alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language" [syn: mangle, mutilate, murder]
verb
Destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]

Definition of 'Mutilate'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. (Zool.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mutilate'

From: GCIDE
  • Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zool.) A cetacean, or a sirenian. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mutilate'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]