Definition of Mutilate

  • (a.) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
  • (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
  • (n.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.

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