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mutilate

VT ตัดทอน จน เสีย ความ  ตัด ส่วนสำคัญ ของ (คำปราศรัย  ออก  deprive tad-ton-jon-sia-kwam

 

mutilate

VT ทำให้ (แขนขา  ใช้การไม่ได้  ทำให้ พิกลพิการ  ทำให้ พิการ  damage mar cripple injure disfigure tam-hai-chai-kan-mai-dai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MUTILATE

v.t.[L. mutilo, probably from the root of meto, to cut off. ] 1. To cut off a limb or essential part of an animal body. To cut off the hand or foot is to mutilate the body or the person.
2. To cut or break off, or otherwise separate any important part, as of a statue or building.
3. To retrench, destroy or remove any material part, so as to render the thing imperfect; as, to mutilate the poems of Homer or the orations of Cicero.
Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho.

 

MUTILATED

pp. Deprived of a limb or of an essential part.

 

MUTILATED, MUTILATE

a.In botany, the reverse of luxuriant; not producing a corol, when not regularly apetalous; applied to flowers.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MUTILATE

Mu "ti *late, a. Etym: [L. mutilatus, p.p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. Mutton. ]

 

1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

 

MUTILATE

MUTILATE Mu "ti *late, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A cetacean, or a sirenian.

 

MUTILATE

Mu "ti *late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mutilated; p. pr. & vb. n.Mutilating. ]

 

1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.

 

2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach. ), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mutilate

mu ti late |ˈmyo͞otlˌāt ˈmjuːtɪleɪt | verb [ with obj. ] (usu. be mutilated ) inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on: the leg was badly mutilated | (as adj. mutilated ) : mutilated bodies. inflict serious damage on: the 14th -century church had been partly mutilated in the 18th century. DERIVATIVES mu ti la tor |-ˌātər |noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Latin mutilat- maimed, mutilated, lopped off, from the verb mutilare, from mutilus maimed.

 

Oxford Dictionary

mutilate

mu ¦ti |late |ˈmjuːtɪleɪt | verb [ with obj. ] inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on: most of the prisoners had been mutilated. inflict serious damage on: the fine carved screen was mutilated in the 18th century. DERIVATIVES mutilator noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Latin mutilat- maimed, mutilated, lopped off , from the verb mutilare, from mutilus maimed .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mutilate

mutilate verb 1 the bodies had been mutilated: mangle, maim, disfigure, butcher, dismember; cripple. 2 the painting was mutilated: vandalize, damage, deface, ruin, spoil, destroy, wreck, violate, desecrate; informal trash.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mutilate

mutilate verb 1 many of the bodies had been mutilated: mangle, maim, disfigure, cut to pieces, cut up, hack up, butcher, dismember, tear limb from limb, tear apart, lacerate. 2 the 14th -century carved screen had been mutilated: vandalize, damage, deface, spoil, mar, ruin, destroy, wreck, violate, desecrate; N. Amer. informal trash; rare disfeature.

 

French Dictionary

mutilateur

mutilateur , trice adj. adjectif littéraire Qui mutile. : Une chirurgie mutilatrice.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mutilate

mu ti late /mjúːt (ə )lèɪt /動詞 他動詞 1 〈手足など 〉を切断する ; …を不自由にする (maim ).2 …を (重要部分を取って )骨抜きにする, 台なしにする The censor mutilated the film .検閲官がその映画の一部を削って骨抜きにした m ti l tor 名詞