资料来源 : pyDict

切断,使残废,使不完整

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

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 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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

mutilate
     v 1: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
          [syn: {mangle}, {cut up}]
     2: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered
        the French language" [syn: {mangle}, {murder}]
     3: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: {mar}]