Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mutilation \Mu`ti*la"tion\, n. [L. mutilatio: cf. F.
mutilation.]
The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated;
deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mutilation
n 1: an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of
a limb or other important body part
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutilation":
abrasion, abscission, amputation, annihilation, bankruptcy,
blemish, bowlegs, break, breakage, breakdown, burn, butchering,
camelback, chafe, check, chip, chopping, cleavage, cleft palate,
clubfoot, collapse, concussion, crack, crack-up, crackle, craze,
crippling, crookback, cut, cutting, damage, defacement,
deformation, deformity, destruction, detriment, dichotomy,
dilapidation, disablement, disfigurement, disrepair, elimination,
encroachment, enucleation, eradication, excision, exclusion,
extinction, extirpation, fission, flash burn, flatfoot, fracture,
fray, frazzle, freakishness, gall, gash, harelip, harm, hobbling,
humpback, hunchback, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation,
incision, infringement, injury, inroad, knock-knee, kyphosis,
laceration, lesion, lordosis, loss, maiming, malconformation,
malformation, mayhem, mischief, misproportion, misshape,
monstrosity, mortal wound, puncture, rending, rent, rescission,
resection, rip, ripping, ruination, ruinousness, run, rupture,
sabotage, scald, scathe, scission, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff,
second-degree burn, section, severance, sickening, slash, slashing,
slicing, sore, splayfoot, splitting, spoiling, stab, stab wound,
surgery, swayback, talipes, tear, tearing, teratology,
third-degree burn, torticollis, trauma, truncation, valgus,
weakening, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wryneck
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
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.