deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.-having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.-a cetacean, or a sirenian.-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.-to destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of cicero.