MUTILATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutilated mean? 

• MUTILATED (adjective)
  The adjective MUTILATED has 1 sense:

1. having a part of the body crippled or disabled

  Familiarity information: MUTILATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTILATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a part of the body crippled or disabled

Synonyms:

maimed; mutilated

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

 Context examples 

“Since you have preserved my narration,” said he, “I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"On this arm, I have neither hand nor nails," he said, drawing the mutilated limb from his breast, and showing it to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I lost them two talons, holding up his mutilated hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She rummaged in a bureau, and presently she produced a photograph of a woman, shamefully defaced and mutilated with a knife.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a sinking heart, filled with pity and admiration for these two gallant men, I longed that every bout might be the last, and yet the Time! was hardly out of Jackson’s mouth before they had both sprung from their second’s knees, with laughter upon their mutilated faces and chaffing words upon their bleeding lips.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will He accept a mutilated sacrifice?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the mean time they formed up in a line of sentinels, presenting under their row of white hats every type of fighting face, from the fresh boyish countenances of Tom Belcher, Jones, and the other younger recruits, to the scarred and mutilated visages of the veteran bruisers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stretched his right hand (the left arm, the mutilated one, he kept hidden in his bosom); he seemed to wish by touch to gain an idea of what lay around him: he met but vacancy still; for the trees were some yards off where he stood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)