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/mjˈutəlˌeɪtəd/ /mjˈutəlˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Mutilate v. t. (past & past part. mutilated; pres. part. mutilating)

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.

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."

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.

adjective

mutilated adj.

Badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.

Synonyms: maimed.

Damaged, often deliberately; of compositions; as, a mutilated text. Opposite of undamaged or intact.

Synonyms: mangled, mutilated.

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Etymology of 'Mutilated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mutilated" Quotes from Famous Books

... Things about the Second Advent. Dreadful things. You said God was close at hand. Happily you spoke partly in Greek. I doubt if any of those children understood. And you had a kind of lapse—an aphasia. You mutilated the interrogation and you did not pronounce the benediction properly. You changed words and you put in words. One sat frozen—waiting for ...

— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... genital nerve centers, therefore, invariably affects the brain, and thus the intellectual and emotional life of a woman. It is almost axiomatic that a woman whose uterus or ovaries have been removed or mutilated is afterward mentally and emotionally more or less abnormal. Nervousness, irritability and only too often nervous prostration and insanity are the sequelae ...

— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr

... took up his position against the pedestal of a mutilated statue close by, and leaned ...

— Monsieur Maurice • Amelia B. Edwards

... mangled body, until a passer by hastened to the city and sent a hearse for the body. On the way to town for burial, the same band of guerrillas captured the team and hearse, and left again the distressed mother and child to get the mutilated body of the husband and father taken to burial as best they could. "Such horrible deeds," said a Union man of this city, "will continue until government takes a ...

— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland

... painfully; and shrank back, glancing at his lame foot and mutilated hand. In another instant he recovered his self-possession and ...

— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich

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