Mutilation - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Mutilation :  (noun)

1: an injury that deprives you of a limb or other important body part

Based on WordNet 2.0

Mutilation : \Mu`ti*la"tion\, n. [L. mutilatio: cf. F. mutilation.] The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

MUTILATION, crim. law. The depriving a man of the use of any of those limbs, which may be useful to him in fight, the loss of which amounts to mayhem. 1 Bl. Com. 130.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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