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mu⋅ti⋅late

  [myoot-l-eyt]
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–verb (used with object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
1. to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
2. to deprive (a person or animal) of a limb or other essential part.
Origin:
1525–35; < L mutilātus (ptp. of mutilāre to cut off, maim), equiv. to mutil(us) maimed, mutilated + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
mu⋅ti⋅la⋅tion, noun
mu⋅ti⋅la⋅tive, mu⋅ti⋅la⋅to⋅ry  [myoot-l-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective
mu⋅ti⋅la⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. damage, mar, cripple. 2. See maim.
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mu·ti·late   (myōōt'l-āt')   
tr.v.   mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates
  1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
  2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at batter1.
  3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.

[Latin mutilāre, mutilāt-, from mutilus, maimed.]
mu'ti·la'tion n., mu'ti·la'tive adj., mu'ti·la'tor n.
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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["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

Mutilate

Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 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. --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.
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Main Entry: mu·ti·late
Pronunciation: 'myüt-&l-"At
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -lat·ed;-lat·ing
: to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of <mutilate a body>; also : CASTRATE 1
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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