mutilate

1. a. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Source: opted

2. a. Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. Source: opted

3. n. A cetacean, or a sirenian. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Source: opted

6. v. damage or injure severely Source: wordnet

7. v. alter so as to make unrecognizable Source: wordnet

8. v. destroy or injure severely Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

10. Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as acetacean. Source: adambom

11. v:100 v. destroy or injure severely v. destroy or injure severely Source: ecdict

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