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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
mutilate
 
SYLLABICATION:mu·ti·late
PRONUNCIATION:  mytl-t
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates
1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. 2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See synonyms at batter1. 3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin mutilre, mutilt-, from mutilus, maimed.
OTHER FORMS:muti·lation —NOUN
muti·lative —ADJECTIVE
muti·lator —NOUN
 
 
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