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# mutilated

«mutilated» in Mova's school dictionary: **badly damaged, cut or broken, especially a body part that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; past participle of mutilate (mutilates, mutilated, mutilating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mutilated means badly damaged, cut or broken, especially a body part that has been harmed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutilated/#m1)

2) Mutilated can mean that a text or picture has been damaged so that it is hard to read or understand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutilated/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, describes a body part cut off or harmed, often in a test or a trick; in lessons, describes a damaged text or old document

### examples

- The false bride had a mutilated foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutilated/#x1)
- The writing is mutilated, so we cannot read it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutilated/#x2)
- The old map was badly mutilated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutilated/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mutilated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutilated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.