Mutilate

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1. Adjective

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

2. Adjective

Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

3. Noun

A cetacean, or a sirenian.

4. 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.

5. Verb

To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
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