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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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]: 
 
  mutilated 
  adj  1:  badly  injured,  perhaps  with  amputation;  "the  maimed  right 
  hand  twisted  and  clutched"-  P.B.Kyne;  "mutilated 
  victims  of  the  rocket  attack"  [syn:  {maimed}] 
  2:  having  a  part  of  the  body  crippled  or  disabled  [syn:  {maimed}] 
  3:  (of  compositions  e.g.)  "a  mutilated  text"  [syn:  {mangled}] 




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