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Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Mutilate

/myo͞ot'-əl-ātˌ/ · Mu·ti·late · IPA /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lət/
01 a. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
  1. 1.
    Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
  2. 2.
    Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.(Zool.)
02 n. A cetacean, or a sirenian.
  1. 1.
    A cetacean, or a sirenian.(Zool.)
03 v. t. 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.
imp. & p. p. Mutilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mutilating
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Phrases & compounds
Mutilated gear — a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements.