Mutilate vs Mutant - What's the difference?
mutilate | mutant |
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
To destroy beyond recognition.
(figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
(obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
(zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.
(Webster 1913)
Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
* Your plaid fish are mutants .
(informal) Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
* I think your brother is a mutant ; he’s so weird!
That has undergone mutation.
* Your mutant fish are dying.
(informal) Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
* Your mutant brother just growled at me again!
As a verb mutilate
is to physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.As an adjective mutilate
is (obsolete) deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.As a noun mutant is
mutant.mutilate
English
Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* maim * mangleDerived terms
* mutilation * mutilative * mutilatorSee also
* amputate, amputation * castrate, castration * circumcise, circumcisionAdjective
(-)- (Sir Thomas Browne)