See Also: mutilate(medicine)
mutilate(1)(dictionary)
mutilate(2)(dictionary)
mutilate(dictionary)

uninhabitable (oh) and mutilate(1) (iou)


uninhabitable (oh)



if a place is uninhabitable, it is impossible to live in
::Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
::Many houses were so badly damaged in the war that they were made permanently uninhabitable.

mutilate(1) (iou)



mutilate adjective & noun. E16.
[Latin mutilatus pa. pple, formed as MUTILATE verb: see -ATE2.]
A. adjective.
Mutilated. obsolete exc. poet. E16.
Biology. Of an animal or plant: having some part common to related forms either absent or present only in an imperfect or modified state. M18.
b. noun. Biology. A mutilate organism; spec. a cetacean or sirenian as lacking fully developed limbs. Now rare or obsolete. M19.