mutilate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mutilate	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for mutilate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mutilate v destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work" Synonym(s): mutilate, mangle, cut up alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language" Synonym(s): mangle, mutilate, murder destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" Synonym(s): mutilate, mar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, a. [L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. [?], [?]. Cf. {Mutton}.] 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mutilate \Mu"tilate\, 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.