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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

... should have mutilated yourself like Origen. Your generative organs, believe me, are not so valuable as the picture you ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... Russian writers, in which he takes a place immediately next to Tchekoff, whom he resembles in the melancholy tone of his work. In him, as in Tchekoff, the number of people who suffer from life, either crushed or mutilated by it, by far exceed the number of happy ones; moreover, the best of his stories are short and sketchy like those of Tchekoff. Andreyev is then, so to speak, his spiritual son. But he is a sickly son, who carries the melancholy element to its farthest limit. The grey ...

— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky

... succumb and be trodden on like a worm? Should she be weaker even than an English girl? Should she allow him to have amused himself with her love, to have had 'a good time,' and then to roam away like a bee, while she was so dreadfully scorched, so mutilated and punished! Had not her whole life been opposed to the theory of such passive endurance? She took out the scrap of paper and read it; and, in spite of all, she felt that there was a feminine softness ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... correcting us with pious zeal. Oftentimes we have to endure barbarous interpreters, and those who are ignorant of foreign idioms presume to translate us from one language into another; and thus all propriety of speech is lost and our sense is shamefully mutilated contrary to the meaning of the author! Truly noble would have been the condition of books if it had not been for the presumption of the tower of Babel, if but one kind of speech had been transmitted ...

— The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury • Richard de Bury

... schedule; precisely at four-thirty he had inspected the expedition and marched at the first streak of dawn. Schultz removed to the other hill, leaving twenty-five men and a gun under a black sergeant. Afterwards he visited the village. The bodies of five of the picket were lying in the sun mutilated. Not a native of any sort was to be seen or heard. He sent out scouts. A village a couple of miles away was deserted too. He wished to burn the huts and plantation to clear the ground around the fort but he ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

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