Definition of mutilates Mutilates

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Verb mutilates, mutilating, mutilated
mutilate - destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"
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		maim injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
		gouge, force out force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"
mutilate - destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
		mangle, cut up
		damage inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
mutilate - alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
		mangle, murder
		garble, warp, distort, falsify falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records"

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mutilate (Verb)
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
mutilate (Verb)
To destroy beyond recognition.
mutilate (Verb)
To render imperfect.
mutilate (Adjective)
Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
mutilate (Adjective)
Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.

mutilate (a.)
Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
mutilate (a.)
Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
mutilate (n.)
A cetacean, or a sirenian.
mutilate (v. t.)
To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.
mutilate (v. t.)
To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.