资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.