vt. 切断, 使残废, 使不完整

[医] 致残毁

Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, a. [L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to
mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. {Mutton}.]
1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
--Sir T. Browne.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of
legs, as a cetacean.


Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A cetacean, or a sirenian.


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.

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.