Mutilate

[mu·ti·late]

Mutilate is a verb that means to injure or ruin, usually in a brutal or messy way. If you drop a cantaloupe into a wood chipper, you'll mutilate that poor melon, with chunks of fruit and rind flying everywhere.

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

Verb
destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"

Verb
destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

Verb
alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"


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.


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. 2. (Zo'94l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

Mutilate

Mu"ti*late, n. (Zo'94l.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.

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 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.
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.

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

A cetacean, or a sirenian.

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.

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Usage Examples

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

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