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Grammar : Adj
Spell : myoot-l-eyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmyut lˌeɪt


Définition of mutilated

Origin :
  • 1530s, of things; 1560s, of persons; from Latin mutilatus, past participle of mutilare "to cut off, lop off, cut short; maim, mutilate," from mutilus "maimed" (see mutilation). Technically, to deprive of some principal part, especially by cutting off. Related: Mutilated; mutilating.
  • adj dismembered
Example sentences :
  • The beauty of that form, though headless, mutilated and reeking with the hot blood of their foul crime—how shall I describe it?
  • Extract from : « The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete » by Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
  • One day at a drinking-bout this monster had the youth seized and mutilated, and why?
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • It must be either unfinished by the author or mutilated (as Hearne conjectured).
  • Extract from : « Henry the Sixth » by John Blacman
  • We have a pride in them, and we 'll not suffer them to be mutilated or disfigured.
  • Extract from : « Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service » by Charles James Lever
  • Obversely, that the incomplete, or the mutilated, is the ugly.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • It is greatly to be lamented that this curious epitaph is mutilated.
  • Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
  • Breaking my gun, he slipped the mutilated ammunition into the unchoked barrel.
  • Extract from : « The Black Wolf Pack » by Dan Beard
  • The ones that were mutilated were all in the same handwriting.
  • Extract from : « Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman » by Emma Speed Sampson
  • If they're touched—the large loose men—it's only to be mutilated and trivialised.
  • Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
  • But the text is too mutilated to warrant further conjectures.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow

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