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MUTILATES
Verb
mutilates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutilate
Anagrams
• multiseat, stimulate, ultimates
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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