Definition of Mutilate

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Mutilate

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

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

A cetacean, or a sirenian.

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.

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

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Mutilate Quotations

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
Tori Amos

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
River Phoenix

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
Warren Beatty

Mutilate Translations

mutilate in French is mutilons, mutilez, mutiler, mutilent
mutilate in Latin is praecido, trunco
mutilate in Spanish is mutilar

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