Thesaurus: mutilate

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1. a. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
2. a. Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
3. n. A cetacean, or a sirenian.
4. 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.
5. v. t. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
6. v. damage or injure severely
7. v. alter so as to make unrecognizable
8. v. destroy or injure severely
9. 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne. 2. (Zoöl.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. A cetacean, or a sirenian. 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.
10. Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as acetacean.
11. v:100 v. destroy or injure severely v. destroy or injure severely