Mutilate

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A cetacean, or a sirenian.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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

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