MUTILATED

maimed, mutilated

(adjective) having a part of the body crippled or disabled

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

mutilated

simple past tense and past participle of mutilate

Adjective

mutilated

Having undergone mutilation

Anagrams

• maltitude, multidate, ultimated

Source: Wiktionary


MUTILATE

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



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