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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

... excepting only that the images over the side doors have been mutilated. The one in the centre (over the great entrance) is still in excellent preservation, and appears to be finely executed: it is the figure of the Virgin Mary in gray marble, the size of life, seated, with the infant Jesus in her arms. On a scroll ...

— A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 • W.D. Fellowes

... every step the beast is going, Increasing evermore until it smites him, And leaves the body vilely mutilated. ...

— Dante's Purgatory • Dante

... not dare to intercede for his brother, though this ignominious punishment mortified his ambitious mind more than even a sentence of death could have done. As he was afraid that his own influence and consideration might suffer through this mutilated brother, he ordered him to leave Babylon at once for a country-house of ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... eager scouts cantering on before. All Devers could learn as they jogged along was that Tate, one of the couriers, had ridden in at seven on an exhausted mule to say that not until after dawn had they found Davies's party,—seven of them,—stone dead, stripped, scalped, gashed, mutilated almost beyond recognition, far out on the slopes east of that fatal spur over which the September sun had risen before he came, leaving his stunned ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

... rulers, with solemn enthusiasm, plunged England with all her power and influence on the side of Prussia and her continental allies, and, in conjunction with the Holy Alliance, pledged themselves never to lay down arms until France was mutilated and the master-mind which ruled her beaten and dethroned. Their task was long, costly, and gruesome. What a ghastly legacy those aggressively righteous champions of international rights have bequeathed to the world! But for their folly and frenzy we should not be engaged in a European war to-day. ...

— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman

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