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Mutilate vs Mutilater - What's the difference?

mutilate | mutilater |

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 mutilater is

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mutilate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * maim * mangle

    Derived terms

    * mutilation * mutilative * mutilator

    See also

    * amputate, amputation * castrate, castration * circumcise, circumcision

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation)

    Anagrams

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    mutilater

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1830 , George Stanley Faber, The difficulties of Romanism (page 262)
    • These heretics were the original mutilaters of the Eucharist; as their predecessors, the Gnostics, were the original advocates of image-worship.