mutilate, mar
(verb) destroy or injure severely; “mutilated bodies”
mutilate, mangle, cut up
(verb) destroy or injure severely; “The madman mutilates art work”
mangle, mutilate, murder
(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable; “The tourists murdered the French language”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mutilate (third-person singular simple present mutilates, present participle mutilating, simple past and past participle mutilated)
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
To destroy beyond recognition.
(figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
• maim
• mangle
mutilate (not comparable)
(obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
(zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.
• ultimate
Source: Wiktionary
Mu"ti*late, a. Etym: [L. mutilatus, p.p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. Mutton.]
1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
Mu"ti*late, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A cetacean, or a sirenian.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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