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. [1913 Webster]

2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. [1913 Webster]

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

mutilated \mutilated\ adj.

1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.

Syn: maimed. [WordNet 1.5]

3. damaged, often deliberately; -- of compositions; as, a mutilated text. Opposite of undamaged or intact.

Syn: mangled, mutilated. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

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]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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 hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.

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

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)