1.
[syn: maimed, mutilated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
mutilated \mutilated\ adj.
1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent
disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.
Syn: maimed.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. damaged, often deliberately; -- of compositions; as, a
mutilated text. Opposite of undamaged or intact.
Syn: mangled, mutilated.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mutilate \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 disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the
body, a statue, etc.
[1913 Webster]
2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render
imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
[1913 Webster]
Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is
none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of
Sappho. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mutilated
adj 1: having a part of the body crippled or disabled [syn:
maimed, mutilated]