Mutilated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  mutilated \mutilated\ adj.
     1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent
        disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.
  
     Syn: maimed.
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     3. damaged, often deliberately; -- of compositions; as, a
        mutilated text. Opposite of {undamaged} or {intact}.
  
     Syn: mangled, mutilated.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mutilated
       adj 1: badly injured, perhaps with amputation; "the maimed right
              hand twisted and clutched"- P.B.Kyne; "mutilated
              victims of the rocket attack" [syn: {maimed}]
       2: having a part of the body crippled or disabled [syn: {maimed}]
       3: (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text" [syn: {mangled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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