mutilate
mutilate is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
- adjective. Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
- noun. A cetacean, or a sirenian.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
- verb. destroy or injure severely
"mutilated bodies"
- verb. alter so as to make unrecognizable
"The tourists murdered the French language"
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Common word forms
mutilated, mutilates, mutilating
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