mutilate

Meanings

1. To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
2. To destroy beyond recognition.
3. To render imperfect or defective.

1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
2. Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, like a cetacean does.

1. Something that has been mutilated.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).