4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mutilate  \Mu"ti*late\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  cetacean,  or  a  sirenian. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mutilate 
  v  1:  destroy  or  injure  severely;  "The  madman  mutilates  art  work" 
  [syn:  {mangle},  {disfigure},  {cut  up}] 
  2:  "The  tourists  murdered  the  French  language"  [syn:  {mangle}, 
  {murder}] 
  3:  destroy,  as  of  a  limb  [syn:  {mar}] 

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