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mutilated

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mu·ti·late  (mytl-t)
tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates
1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at batter1.
3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.
[Latin mutilre, mutilt-, from mutilus, maimed.]
muti·lation n.
muti·lative adj.
muti·lator n.
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Adj.1.mutilated - having a part of the body crippled or disabled
maimed
unfit - not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"


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Arms, legs, and mutilated bodies were blown into the air, and dreadful havoc was made in the surrounding canoes.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
The torture of the slow death as the circling warriors cut him to bits with the fiendish skill, that mutilated without bringing unconsciousness, had no terrors for him.
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I was out with a small scouting party and found your body, full of bullet-holes and newly scalped-- somewhat mutilated otherwise, too, I am sorry to say--right where you say you made your fight.
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