Mutilating

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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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