Mutilate /(?)/

1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
2. Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. (Zool.)

1. A cetacean, or a sirenian. (Zool.)

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 disfigure; 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.