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Mutilated vs Mutilate - What's the difference?

mutilated | mutilate |

As verbs the difference between mutilated and mutilate

is that mutilated is past tense of mutilate while mutilate is to physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.

As adjectives the difference between mutilated and mutilate

is that mutilated is = {{l/en|mutilate} while mutilate is deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

mutilated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mutilate)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • =

    • Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation)

    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)

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