Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) To disfigure; to cripple; to deprive an important part. 2. (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. 3. (n.) A cetacean, or a sirenian. 4. (v. t.) 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. 5. (v. t.) To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.

Multi-Version Concordance Mutilate (3 Occurrences) Galatians 5:12 Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves. (WEY NAS RSV) Philippians 3:2 Beware of 'the dogs,' the bad workmen, the self-mutilators. (See RSV) Leviticus 19:27 ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard. (DBY)