mutilate

mutilate
    v 1: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
         [syn: {mutilate}, {mangle}, {cut up}]
    2: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered
       the French language" [syn: {mangle}, {mutilate}, {murder}]
    3: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn:
       {mutilate}, {mar}]
    

Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zool.)
   A cetacean, or a sirenian.
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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.
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   2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render
      imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
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            Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is
            none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of
            Sappho.                               --Addison.
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   {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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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.
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   2. (Zool.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of
      legs, as a cetacean.
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132 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutilate":
      abrade, abscind, alter, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, bark,
      blemish, bloody, bob, break, burn, butcher, castrate, chafe,
      change, check, chip, claw, clip, crack, craze, cripple, crop, cull,
      cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, damage, deface, defoliate, deform,
      denude, desexualize, destroy, disable, disfigure, dismember,
      disproportion, dock, draw and quarter, eliminate, enucleate,
      eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fix,
      flay, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, geld, hurt,
      incise, injure, isolate, knock off, lacerate, lame, lop, maim,
      make mincemeat of, mangle, mar, maul, mayhem, misshape, neuter,
      nip, pare, peel, pick out, pick to pieces, pierce, prune,
      pull apart, puncture, rend, rip, rip off, root out, ruin, rule out,
      run, rupture, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch,
      scuff, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shred, skin, slash,
      slit, spoil, sprain, stab, stamp out, stick, strain, strike off,
      strip, strip off, take apart, take off, take out, tear, tear apart,
      tear off, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, traumatize, truncate,
      unsex, vandalize, wipe out, wound, wrench