| n. | 1. | The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part. |
| Noun | 1. | mutilation - an injury that deprives you of a limb or other important body part |
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.
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