Meaning Of Mutilate

a.

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

a.

Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

n.

A cetacean, or a sirenian.

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.

v. t.

To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.