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Mutilation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of mutilating; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

2. mutilation is a term of very general import, applied to bodies, to statues, to buildings and to writings; but appropriately, it denotes the retrenchment of a human limb or member, and particularly of the male organs of generation.

Mutilation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

Nonaddition. Subtraction Roget’s Thesaurus §38

N. subtraction, subduction|, deduction, retrenchment, removal, withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling, &c. v, mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion

V. subduct, subtract, deduct, deduce, bate, retrench, remove, withdraw, take from, take away, detract, garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate, cut off, cut away, cut out, abscind, excise, pare, thin, prune, decimate, abrade, scrape, file, geld, castrate, eliminate, diminish, curtail, deprive of, weaken

Adj. subtracted, subtractive

Adv. in deduction, less, short of, minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation, not counting, if one doesn't count

Amorphism Roget’s Thesaurus §241

N. amorphism, # informity, unlicked cub, rudis indigestaque moles, disorder, deformity, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, deforming, chaos, randomness (disorder) 59, fluid

V. deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate, derange, blemish, mar

Adj. shapeless, amorphous, formless, unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen, rough, rude, gothic, barbarous, rugged

Evil Roget’s Thesaurus §619

N. evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance, # machinations of the devil, pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to, blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation, mortal blow, wound, immedicabile vulnus, damage, loss, disadvantage, prejudice, drawback, disaster, accident, casualty, mishap, bad job, devil to pay, calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy, ruin, adversity, mental suffering, * demon &v, 980, bane, badness, painfulness, evil doer, outrage, wrong, injury, foul play, bad turn, ill turn, disservice, spoliation, grievance, crying evil

V. be in trouble

Adj. disastrous, bad, awry, out of joint, disadvantageous

Adv. amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost

Phr. "moving accidents by flood and field", section ii, prospective volition 1, conceptional volition