mutilated
from
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.
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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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from
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutilated":
aggravated, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bowlegged,
broken, burned, burst, busted, butchered, castrated, checked,
chipped, cleft, cloven, club-footed, cracked, crazed, cut,
cut short, damaged, defaced, deformed, deteriorated, disfigured,
docked, dwarfed, embittered, exacerbated, flatfooted, garbled,
grotesque, harmed, hashed, hurt, ill-made, ill-proportioned,
ill-shaped, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards,
in shreds, injured, irritated, knock-kneed, lacerate, lacerated,
lopped, malformed, mangled, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned,
misshapen, monstrous, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed,
quartered, rachitic, ragged, rent, rickety, riven, ruptured,
scalded, scorched, severed, shattered, shredded, simous, slashed,
slit, smashed, snub-nosed, splintered, split, sprung, stumpy,
swaybacked, talipedic, tattered, the worse for, torn, truncated,
weakened, worse, worse off, worsened
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