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.